About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Brennan is a Licensed Master Social Worker who brings eight years of clinical experience to her practice. She focuses on helping people who are coping with anxiety, depression, ADHD, trauma, relationship struggles, and life transitions. Her approach is warm and patient, and she aims to help clients feel heard and understood from the start.
She spent time in public mental health doing direct care, assessment, case management, and therapy.
Background and approach
That mix of roles shaped a practical style that balances listening with clear steps people can try between sessions. Elizabeth values creativity and often invites expressive activities when they fit a person's goals. Sessions tend to be collaborative.
She listens first, then works with each person to set manageable goals. Work may include skill-building for stress, tools to manage attention and focus, and strategies for mood regulation. Practical tasks and check-ins are common between meetings.
Elizabeth draws on several clinical approaches to match what a person needs. Treatment plans can include exploring thoughts and behaviors, building emotional skills, and processing past trauma when that is part of the picture. She frames therapy as a partnership and adjusts methods as progress unfolds.
Away from clinical work she makes pottery, paints watercolors, and grows succulents. That personal creativity informs her belief that art and practical routines can support healing and make daily life more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Elizabeth often blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to create a practical, person-focused approach. Client-Centered work means sessions begin by listening to what matters most to the person and building goals from their priorities. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and manage attention difficulties.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills when emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are priorities. DBT teaches concrete skills for handling intense feelings, improving communication, and tolerating distress without making problems worse. These approaches can be adapted to focus on ADHD-related challenges, trauma responses, or mood instability depending on needs.
Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching and reminders. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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