About Elizabeth
Elizabeth "Liz" McDowell is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 17 years of clinical experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, and life changes. Liz aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so people can use skills between sessions.
Her background spans inpatient and outpatient settings where she provided assessments, therapy, and support. This variety informs a flexible style that fits many situations. Liz draws on familiar, evidence-informed approaches to help people build coping skills and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
In sessions she focuses on clear goals and practical steps. She uses tools that teach new ways to think and respond when emotions run high. Sessions often include skill coaching, real-life practice, and space to process painful events.
Liz pays attention to relationships, attachment patterns, and how past experiences shape current reactions. She also helps people manage burnout, compassion fatigue, and caring responsibilities that wear on emotional energy. Her work addresses both immediate problems and longer-term patterns.
People who seek her out tend to want a therapist who is direct, steady, and collaborative. She encourages small, testable changes and checks in on progress regularly. Liz offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Approach-Based care delivered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice hard thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, then choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions because it focuses on what matters most and small steps toward it. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with stress. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people change how they relate to others and manage closeness and trust.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan when something is not working. Working together lets the client test strategies and pick what feels most helpful.
Online therapy here is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face work and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging support quick check-ins, short coaching, and ongoing skills practice between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Idaho, Utah, Maine, Arizona, California
- Languages
- English