About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Coutts is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with over three decades of experience. She focuses on practical help for everyday problems like anxiety, depression, relationship stress, and addiction. She meets people where they are and aims to make the first steps less overwhelming.
She uses clear, collaborative conversations to understand what matters most to each person. Sessions are shaped around individual goals, whether that means managing mood, improving self-esteem, or coping with major life changes.
Background and approach
The work is rooted in listening first and then building simple tools that fit daily life. Elizabeth draws on methods that help people notice their thoughts, strengthen relationships, and make steady behavior changes. She applies approaches that suit the problem at hand rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
This lets clients try practical strategies and adjust them as progress happens. Her long experience includes helping people through grief, parenting stress, chronic illness, career transitions, and attachment or abandonment issues. She also addresses concerns such as body image, blended family dynamics, caregiver strain, and coping after disasters.
She brings patience and directness to these varied challenges. Conversations with Elizabeth are respectful and down-to-earth. She explains options, invites feedback, and works at a pace that feels manageable.
For many people, that steady, personalized approach makes it easier to move forward.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with big life changes by shifting attention toward meaningful steps.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and how early experience affects current connections. This approach can help with relationship worry, abandonment concerns, and attachment issues by building awareness and new ways of relating.
Elizabeth uses a client-centered stance, which means sessions center on the person’s experience and choices. Together they decide which tools to try, drawing from CBT or DBT strategies when practical changes or emotion skills are needed.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to match methods to goals and preferences, adjusting plans as needs change. That collaborative process helps people test strategies and keep what works.
Online therapy lets people meet by video, talk by phone, or use live chat and text messaging for brief check-ins or ongoing dialogue. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can fit short updates or quick skill practice. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English