About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Goodsite Bondy is an LPC who centers her work on practical, collaborative therapy. She speaks plainly and focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, anger, depression, and major life transitions. Her style emphasizes strengths and real-world skills rather than jargon.
She encourages small steps and steady progress so clients feel change is possible. With 18 years of experience, she draws from several approaches to match each person's needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings while moving toward valued goals.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and build new coping habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds skills for managing intense emotion and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Elizabeth also integrates attachment-focused ideas to make sense of relationship patterns, and client-centered listening to keep sessions grounded in what matters to each person.
She has worked with people facing ADHD, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, body image and caregiver stress among many other concerns. She supports exploration of identity and intimacy issues as well. Sessions may include practical exercises, skill practice, and down-to-earth conversations about what is getting in the way of daily life.
She frames therapy as a team effort where the client's goals guide each step. People can expect straightforward feedback and tools they can try between sessions. Elizabeth is licensed as an LPC and as an LPCC and practices from Wisconsin.
She offers short-term coaching-style work as well as longer therapeutic work depending on what a person needs and wants.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice and accept difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying what matters most to them and taking steps toward those values. This approach can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing attention on meaningful action rather than battling unwanted inner experiences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is centered on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new skills to change mood and behavior; it often helps with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early and current relationships shape expectations and patterns; it can be useful for intimacy, communication, and relationship-related struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and day-to-day realities. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and new challenges arise, so the approach can change over time to stay useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversations and working on skills together. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow brief updates, coaching-style support, or ongoing skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while working with licensed professionals.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin, Ohio
- Languages
- English