About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Blackwood is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Oregon. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential (LCSW) and brings ten years of clinical experience to her work. She speaks fluent Spanish and offers services in English and Spanish.
Elizabeth focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes work on attachment issues, communication problems, guilt and shame, and post-traumatic stress.
Background and approach
In sessions she prioritizes practical skills that fit daily life. Clients can expect help with emotional regulation, impulse control, and building confidence. Conversations are shaped to reflect each person’s needs and goals rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Elizabeth describes her style as respectful and compassionate. She emphasizes clear, direct dialogue and collaborative planning. Progress often looks like small, steady changes in how someone handles stress, emotions, or difficult relationships.
For people worried about starting therapy, she aims to make the first steps straightforward. She helps clients set short-term goals and practice new skills between meetings. The focus is on useful tools and real-world changes, not on jargon or lengthy theory.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Elizabeth often draws on cognitive behavioral ideas, which focus on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teach concrete skills to reduce anxiety and improve mood. This approach helps when someone wants clear tools to manage worry, negative thoughts, or unhelpful habits.She also uses elements of dialectical behavioral techniques to build emotional regulation and distress tolerance skills. These practices teach step-by-step strategies for handling strong emotions, improving impulse control, and reducing conflict in relationships.
Choosing the right method is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals and try approaches that fit their needs and preferences. Sessions start with practical goals and adjust over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect. Video calls let you see facial cues and use visual tools during a session. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit support into busy days and to use brief skill coaching between longer sessions. These options increase flexibility and make it easier to keep consistent momentum toward goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English, Spanish