About Elizabeth
Elizabeth "Liz" McDowell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 17 years of experience. She practices from Idaho and brings a calm, direct style to sessions. Liz listens first and helps people figure out what feels most useful right now.
She focuses on everyday struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and coping with life changes. She also helps people managing ADHD, addictions, compassion fatigue, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns.
Background and approach
Liz works with issues tied to attachment, parenting, career stress, and body image in straightforward, practical ways. In sessions she uses techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy to teach skills people can use between meetings. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and attachment-based ideas to help clients settle on values and improve close relationships.
Conversations are paced to match what each person needs that week. Therapy often includes skill practice, problem-solving, and tracking small changes over time. Liz believes small steps add up and focuses on habits that reduce overwhelm.
She helps people set realistic goals and notices what gets in the way of making them happen. Her approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. People who want practical tools and a therapist who listens will find clear, jargon-free guidance.
Sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Her work blends cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in straightforward ways. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take action even when feelings are uncomfortable.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. That conversation guides which techniques are used, and adjustments are made as progress is tracked.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer practical flexibility. Video calls let you work face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be a good lower-bandwidth option or fit a busy day. Live chat or text is useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Utah, Maine, Arizona, California
- Languages
- English
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