About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Phelan is a licensed professional counselor with over three decades of experience. She speaks directly and calmly, helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, parenting pressures, relationship strain, or life changes. Her work includes supporting those dealing with ADHD, mood concerns, grief, and trauma-related difficulties.
She draws on a long history as both a school counselor and a personal therapist. That background means she is used to working with teens and young adults as well as adults facing career and identity questions.
Background and approach
Sessions are adapted to each person’s needs, with practical steps and clear goals rather than vague promises. Elizabeth emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion in every meeting. She works with clients to build a plan that fits their circumstances and strengths.
Conversations focus on what someone can try between sessions and how progress will be noticed. Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. People can expect a mix of talking, problem solving, and simple skill-building to manage mood, attention, or everyday stress.
She also brings experience addressing adoption and foster care issues, multicultural concerns, immigration-related stress, and women's issues. Based in Connecticut, Elizabeth holds the LPC credential and offers care in English. Her long career includes helping those coping with panic, post-traumatic stress, addiction-related concerns, and compassion fatigue.
She aims to make the process feel manageable from the first contact.
How Elizabeth Uses Practical Approaches Online
Elizabeth draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One common approach emphasizes skills training to manage attention, mood swings, and daily routines; this helps people with ADHD symptoms, anxiety, or low motivation by turning strategies into steps they can try between sessions. Another method centers on trauma-informed care that helps people process difficult experiences and reduce intrusive reactions, using pacing and grounding tools to regain stability.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Elizabeth works collaboratively to identify what matters most, tests methods, and adjusts plans based on your goals and preferences. The first few meetings often focus on practical needs and quick wins so later work can build from what’s effective.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs and schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared materials, phone sessions can fit shorter check-ins or low-bandwidth situations, and live chat or text messaging suit quick updates or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to maintain consistency, manage busy days, and try new skills where life actually happens.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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