About Elizabeth
Dr. Elizabeth Franklin is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction.
Her work centers on practical steps people can use right away. She builds sessions around each person's story. Conversations are straightforward and warm.
She listens first, then helps set short-term goals and clear next steps. Her approach blends client-centered care with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and solution-focused work.
Background and approach
That means sessions often combine active listening with exercises to change unhelpful thinking and small, achievable behavior changes. Dr. Franklin helps people facing relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, career pressures, and transitions such as divorce or aging.
She also addresses issues like eating and sleeping problems, ADHD concerns, anger, and substance use. Clients can expect practical strategies alongside emotional support. Common focuses include improving communication, setting boundaries, coping with life changes, and rebuilding self-esteem.
The aim is to create manageable plans that fit daily life. Her practice offers a calm, nonjudgmental space for people from varied backgrounds. She emphasizes cultural awareness and works to honor each person’s lived experience while helping them move toward clearer goals.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist reflects what she hears and helps people identify their own priorities and strengths, which is useful for tackling relationship strain, grief, or self-esteem concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and simple experiments to shift unhelpful thinking and to change behaviors tied to anxiety, depression, or sleep and eating issues.
Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes small, achievable steps toward clear goals. Sessions often identify what already works for a person and build on those strengths to make measurable progress with stress, career decisions, or parenting challenges.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day life. That collaboration may shift as needs evolve.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a short break at work, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options offer flexibility to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this counselor works with
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- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English