About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Smith is a licensed professional counselor in Pennsylvania with 13 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and parenting strain. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem struggles.
Her sessions are conversational and practical. She listens first, then helps people try small changes that fit their life. Clients can expect clear goals and simple tools to try between visits.
Background and approach
Elizabeth focuses on what matters most to each person rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Elizabeth uses several approaches to guide the work. Cognitive behavioral techniques help with unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take meaningful action. Her client-centered stance keeps the person's experience central during every session. She draws on more emotionally oriented methods for relationship and attachment issues.
That can mean slowing down to track feelings, improving communication, and strengthening connection. Practical problem solving is used for parenting stress, work strain, and life transitions. People seeking a flexible way to get support will find multiple session formats available.
Elizabeth works with adults on a range of problems and focuses on helping them build coping skills they can use long term.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters most and taking committed action toward those values. Online ACT sessions can help with anxiety, depression, life transitions, and motivation by pairing short in-session exercises with real-life practice between meetings.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people spot and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. In remote sessions, CBT often uses structured conversations, simple worksheets, and behavioral experiments that clients try on their own between appointments.
Elizabeth also brings a client-centered stance that keeps the person’s experience at the center of the work. That means listening carefully, adjusting pacing, and choosing tools that fit each person's daily routine and goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision can shift over time as progress is made and circumstances change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, brief strategies, or keeping momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English