About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Black is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Michigan. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, and coping with major life changes. Elizabeth aims to build a straightforward, warm connection that helps people feel safe enough to talk honestly about what’s hard.
She earned a master’s degree in counseling and has seven years of clinical experience. Elizabeth tends to take a laid-back, relational approach. She often listens first, then offers gentle challenges, practical feedback, and resources that clients can use between sessions.
Background and approach
In sessions she helps people work on communication, boundaries, self-esteem, and managing anger. She also supports those facing career questions, midlife decisions, loneliness, and family of origin issues. People bring concerns like panic attacks, body image struggles, codependency, and feelings of emptiness.
Elizabeth uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered methods to follow the person’s pace, cognitive behavioral strategies to address unhelpful thinking, and mindfulness to help calm the body and mind. Narrative ideas help people reframe their life stories when old patterns no longer fit.
Her style is direct but empathetic. Clients can expect a partnership where goals are clear and progress is practical. Elizabeth believes that even small changes add up, and she aims to leave each person with tools they can use between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s perspective. The therapist listens without judgment, follows the person’s lead, and helps uncover what matters most. This approach is useful for people coping with grief, life transitions, and relationship concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Sessions often include simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and practice new ways of responding. CBT can help with anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and problems like shame or guilt.
Mindfulness practices teach basic skills to notice sensations and thoughts without getting swept away by them. Short exercises in session and brief practices between meetings can reduce reactivity and improve focus for those dealing with stress and anger.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match goals and comfort level, and can combine techniques as needed. Clients generally shape the pace and focus of treatment together with the therapist.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and a fuller conversational flow. Phone sessions can fit a shorter break in a workday or work better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins, homework feedback, or steady support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping consistent progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English