About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Toussaint is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with 15 years of experience. She meets people where they are and helps them make practical changes to feel more stable and understood. Her gentle, straightforward style aims to reduce overwhelm and build on a person's strengths.
She works with concerns such as ADHD, relationship challenges, grief, addiction, trauma and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people dealing with parenting stress, blended family dynamics, mood concerns like bipolar, and problems with communication and attachment.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and what small steps can help in daily life. Elizabeth uses approaches that center the client's experience and priorities. Client-centered work means she follows each person's lead and helps them find solutions that match their values.
Attachment-based ideas guide conversations about how early relationships shape current patterns and where new connections can be built. Mindfulness techniques are offered to help manage strong emotions and reduce reactivity. Motivational interviewing is used when someone is weighing change - it helps clarify why change matters and how to move toward it.
Psychodynamic ideas are woven in when exploring repeated life patterns and deeper sources of distress. Her background includes work with LGBTQ+ issues and coaching for people navigating life transitions. She believes the client is the expert on their story and offers practical support and steady reflection to help people move forward.
Approach-focused care available online
Elizabeth commonly blends attachment-based work and client-centered therapy to support people navigating relationship patterns and everyday struggles. Attachment-based work looks at how early connections shape current behavior and helps people build healthier ways of relating. Client-centered therapy puts the person at the center of sessions and emphasizes listening, validation, and practical steps that fit the client's goals.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help manage strong emotions and motivational interviewing when someone is weighing change or making decisions. The therapist will work collaboratively to figure out which combination of approaches fits best. That means discussing goals, trying different techniques, and adjusting the plan as needed rather than assuming one method up front.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow longer, interactive sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Chat and messaging can support ongoing coaching, quick problem-solving, or regular reflection between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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