About Elizabeth
Elizabeth O'Malley is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California who focuses on practical ways to manage stress, anxiety, and ADHD-related challenges. She creates an inviting space where people can talk honestly about what is hard for them and take small steps toward change.
With ten years of clinical experience, she draws on several approaches to tailor sessions to each person's needs. Sessions often include clear strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to shift unhelpful thoughts and behavior.
Background and approach
Mindfulness techniques and dialectical behavior therapy skills are introduced when people need tools to handle strong emotions and impulsivity. She has worked with individuals facing relationship and family strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, mood disorders, and substance issues.
Elizabeth pays particular attention to parenting concerns, including caring for children with moderate to severe mental health challenges, and to the ways ADHD and impulsivity can affect daily life. In sessions she aims to be warm and direct, helping people set concrete goals and try things between meetings.
She explains techniques in plain language and checks in about what is helping or feels off. The focus is on practical changes that fit a person's everyday life. Elizabeth prefers to collaborate with each person on a plan.
That plan blends short-term problem solving with skills practice and regular review. People leave with tools they can use right away and a clearer sense of next steps.
How Elizabeth blends practical approaches for online care
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening first and adapting to what the person needs in the moment. It emphasizes empathy and respect so people can speak openly and set their own goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and trying concrete techniques to change them, which helps with anxiety, depression, and some ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and reducing impulsive actions; it can be useful when strong feelings or impulsivity get in the way of daily life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process means the approach can shift as needs change, mixing short-term problem solving with skill-building over time.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skill coaching, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text allow quick check-ins or brief coaching between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, or busy days while still using the chosen therapeutic methods.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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