About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Malchow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who began her clinical career after earning a Master of Social Work in 2018. She brings seven years of practice in helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and major life changes. Elizabeth speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
She offers a warm and respectful presence and adapts each plan to the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skill-building exercises for mindfulness and emotion regulation. Elizabeth uses straightforward activities and creative prompts to help people notice patterns that keep them stuck. Her background includes work with grief, parenting strain, relationship struggles, bipolar disorder, and chronic health concerns.
She also helps people facing issues like abandonment, attachment concerns, body image, caregiving stress, and divorce-related transitions. These areas often overlap, so Elizabeth pays attention to how one issue influences another. In session she blends approaches such as attachment-based methods, client-centered listening, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical skills, and emotionally-focused work.
That mix lets her tailor interventions to the person and the problem. The focus is on clear goals, skill practice, and steady progress. People who do best with Elizabeth tend to want practical strategies and gentle but direct reflection.
She emphasizes small, manageable changes over time. If someone is ready to try new ways of coping, she offers a collaborative, down-to-earth path forward.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Attachment-based work looks at how past connections affect current relationships and emotional responses. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and feel steadier in how they connect with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with actions. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and building concrete coping skills. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people name strong emotions and practice new ways of responding in relationships and during loss.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and try methods that match the person’s needs. Over a few sessions they will adjust the plan based on what proves most helpful for emotions, relationships, and daily functioning.
Online therapy with Elizabeth is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues for relationship work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions and to fit brief updates into a busy day. These formats help make therapy more flexible and easier to use alongside work, caregiving, and other life commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English