About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Swift is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and major life changes. She focuses on practical strategies to reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning. Her work is down-to-earth and aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and pays attention to how the body and nervous system respond to stress. Sessions emphasize breathing, grounding, and simple somatic exercises that people can use between meetings.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are woven into sessions to help with anxiety and panic symptoms. Elizabeth pays attention to the history that shapes current struggles, including family of origin issues, abandonment, and patterns of codependency. She also supports people dealing with trauma, sexual assault, domestic violence, and substance use concerns.
Conversations are focused on understanding patterns and building practical tools for change. Work with her includes exploring values and life purpose alongside symptom relief. For people who identify as LGBT or who are involved with kink and alternative sexual cultures, Elizabeth offers nonjudgmental support tied to real-world coping skills.
She also brings experience addressing veteran and armed forces issues. Therapy is offered through video calls and phone sessions, while text is used for brief general questions. Sessions are scheduled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Elizabeth practices in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English.
How therapeutic techniques translate to online care
Elizabeth uses evidence-based techniques that connect well to remote sessions. One common approach emphasizes somatic work - simple body-based skills and breathing exercises that help calm the nervous system. These techniques can be taught over video and practiced during or between sessions to reduce panic and anxiety.Another strand focuses on trauma processing with gentle, paced methods that reduce overwhelm while addressing core memories and reactions. This work aims to help people notice bodily responses and change unhelpful patterns over time, and it can be adapted to fit video or phone sessions depending on your comfort with being on camera.
Finding the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels manageable, then adjust methods as needed. Clients and the therapist review progress together and shift emphasis toward coping skills, processing, or skills practice when appropriate.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and guided practice of grounding skills. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick questions, homework support, and ongoing encouragement between sessions. These options are intended to provide flexibility so therapy fits into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English