About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting strain, and ADHD. She greets clients with a calm, straightforward style and aims to make the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and individuals. She keeps sessions practical and conversational.
Her work focuses on clear goals, problem solving, and building skills that fit day-to-day life. Clients can expect a warm, person-centered approach that values their experience and choices.
Background and approach
Elizabeth draws from cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and create new behavior patterns. She also uses dialectical behavior ideas to help with emotional regulation and mindfulness practices to strengthen attention and reduce overwhelm. With eight years of counseling experience, she adapts methods to each person rather than following a single formula.
She emphasizes collaboration so clients and therapist decide together which tools to try and when to adjust them. Sessions can include short skill practices, planning between sessions, and focused conversations about family roles, work stress, or school-related challenges. Her aim is to help people move through difficulty rather than rush past it, and to build lasting strategies for coping and growth.
Approach and online care that fit your life
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. It lets the person guide sessions while the therapist reflects, asks helpful questions, and supports the client’s own goals. This approach is useful for people who want to feel heard and make changes at their own pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones. It also encourages small behavior changes that add up over time and can help with anxiety, depression, and focus challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, includes skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful when stress or anger becomes overwhelming.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Elizabeth will work together with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and daily life. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is helpful and what isn’t, so the plan evolves with progress.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to meet by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good when visual cues and a face-to-face rhythm help a longer session. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging allow short check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, and family schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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