About Shirley
Shirley "Elizabeth" Loftin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana with four decades of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress and anxiety as well as related concerns like depression, grief, and trauma. Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at finding practical steps that fit each person's life.
Elizabeth believes clients know their lives best and that therapy should build on existing strengths.
Background and approach
She listens closely, asks simple questions, and helps people notice patterns that keep problems going. Together they work toward small, manageable changes rather than sudden overhauls. Her background includes long experience with mood disorders, panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and challenges that affect LGBTQ people.
She also addresses caregiver stress, aging and geriatric issues, and neurodiversity matters related to autism and Asperger syndrome. That range of experience informs how she adapts sessions to different needs. Elizabeth uses techniques drawn from client-centered approaches, cognitive behavioral methods, and trauma-focused work.
Sessions often include talking through situations, trying practical skills between meetings, and adjusting plans as needed. The focus is on learning tools people can use day to day. People meet with her by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
She works in English and practices from Louisiana. Starting therapy involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time to begin.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and strengths. The therapist listens deeply and supports clients in discovering what works for them, which can be helpful for stress, anxiety, and self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is about spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing different behaviors. It teaches practical skills like managing worry, reducing panic symptoms, and changing routines that keep mood problems going.
Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people process distressing events at a pace they can handle. It uses careful, structured methods to reduce trauma-related symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Plans are adjusted over time so sessions stay relevant and practical.
Online therapy allows work by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are good for face-to-face conversation and exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed. Live chat and text let people send short updates or have brief exchanges between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity when in-person meetings aren’t possible.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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