About Elizabeth
Elizabeth (Beth) Fitzpatrick is a licensed clinical social worker in California who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, career challenges, and big life changes. She offers calm, straightforward support for issues like depression, bipolar mood concerns, addictions, relationship and intimacy questions, parenting strains, and trouble sleeping.
Beth also assists people dealing with caregiver stress, first responder strain, and the emotional fallout from trauma and loss. Beth keeps sessions practical and focused.
Background and approach
She listens first and then helps set small, realistic goals to make life more manageable. Conversations are direct and collaborative so clients leave with clear next steps and tools they can try between sessions. With 25 years of experience, Beth draws on a mix of approaches to match a person’s situation.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas to spot unhelpful thinking, Motivational Interviewing to support change, and Solution-Focused techniques to build on strengths. She also brings trauma-focused methods when past events are part of the problem. People working with Beth can expect a steady, nonjudgmental presence.
She encourages exploring feelings about abandonment, attachment, blended family problems, divorce, or caregiving. She supports clients coping with cancer, hospice and end-of-life issues, and those facing guilt, shame, or control struggles. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Beth uses her experience to help each person find the right pace and plan for their goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Elizabeth uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns that feed anxiety, low mood, or problematic behaviors. CBT sessions often involve identifying specific thoughts, trying small experiments, and practicing new skills between meetings.She also uses Motivational Interviewing to help people clarify what they want to change and build motivation. This approach focuses on listening, exploring ambivalence, and finding personal reasons to take steps toward goals, which can be useful for addictions, career shifts, or making lifestyle changes.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Beth will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what feels manageable. She adapts methods over time so sessions stay relevant and useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how people connect. Video calls let therapists and clients use visual cues and have deeper conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick questions, progress updates, or between-session coaching when a written check-in fits someone’s routine.
These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules, continue care when travel or relocation happens, and try different formats to see what works best for their needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English