About Elizabeth
Elizabeth (Libby) Maple is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, or the strain of family and parenting challenges. Libby approaches each person as the expert on their life and works alongside them to make changes that feel possible.
Her work includes support for mood disorders such as bipolar disorder, as well as addiction concerns and grief.
Background and approach
She also helps with issues tied to attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care, and blended family dynamics. These topics often come up together, and she helps people untangle them one step at a time. Libby listens for what matters most to a client and uses practical strategies to help manage strong emotions, impulsivity, and difficult behaviors.
She focuses on skills that people can use between meetings, like grounding, coping techniques, and communication tools for family stress. Sessions aim to be straightforward and useful for day-to-day life. People come to her with a wide range of concerns including eating issues, relationship pain, fertility and pregnancy-related stress, and problems connected to substance use.
She pays attention to how past experiences shape current reactions and to patterns that keep problems repeating. Her background as a licensed social worker informs a broad view of life challenges and resources. Libby invites clients to set goals together and to try approaches that fit their situation and values.
She supports people through gradual change and practical problem solving.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Elizabeth works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on how past experiences shape present behavior. One common approach looks at attachment and family patterns to understand why certain reactions repeat and to develop new ways of relating that reduce conflict. This helps when family history, abandonment, adoption, or blended family issues are creating ongoing stress.Another often-used focus is on mood and coping strategies for conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and impulsivity. This involves learning concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving day-to-day routines, and handling cravings or impulses related to addiction or impulse control issues.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options with each person, consider their goals and preferences, and adapt methods to fit real life. Together they set small goals and test what works in the weeks that follow.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone calls can be an easier fit when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and messaging can work well for brief check-ins or ongoing support between meetings. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English