About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Holden is a licensed professional counselor in Oregon with 21 years of experience. She focuses on practical steps that help people reduce stress, manage anxiety, and handle life changes. She listens for strengths and builds goals with each person.
Her approach is collaborative and straightforward. Holden helps people work through depression, family problems, parenting strain, and challenges related to ADHD and addictions. She also supports those coping with career stress, compassion fatigue, anger, and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to improve communication and build coping skills that carry into daily life. Her work often includes developing clear, doable plans to address specific concerns. That can mean learning new ways to talk with others, practicing emotion regulation, or setting boundaries at work or home.
The focus is on skills people can try between sessions. Elizabeth uses a mix of approaches chosen to fit each person. She centers sessions on the client’s goals and adapts methods as progress is made.
She emphasizes small, measurable changes that add up over time. Clients report practical tools for handling stress and clearer paths forward after working together. Holden frames the work as a partnership where the client’s knowledge of their life guides the process.
She supports people as they make changes and build on their strengths.
How Elizabeth’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s perspective and goals. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps people shape the next steps that feel right for them. This approach helps with motivation and building on existing strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks concerns into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions often include simple exercises and experiments to test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and managing stress in daily life.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes practical skills like distress tolerance and emotion regulation. It teaches concrete tools for managing intense feelings and improving communication. DBT techniques are useful for impulsivity, anger, and relationship strain.
Choosing the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match approaches to their goals, preferences, and the challenges they bring. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people meet face-to-face without travel. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t wanted. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or flexible communication between scheduled meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English