About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Paul is a licensed clinician who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship struggles, and family conflict. She works with adults and young adults who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from themselves or others. Her style is direct but warm, and she aims to create a space where people can speak honestly and be heard.
She uses approaches grounded in evidence and relationships, then adapts them to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on understanding recurring patterns, improving communication, and building emotional regulation skills. Practical tools and gentle challenge are balanced so people leave with clearer next steps. Elizabeth brings five years of clinical experience and holds both LICSW and LCSW credentials.
She draws on work with attachment issues, family systems, and somatic awareness to help people make sense of symptoms that come from stress, trauma, or difficult life changes. She also supports people navigating adoption and foster care, blended family issues, and caregiver stress.
She has experience addressing topics such as codependency, dissociation, divorce and separation, fatherhood issues, first responder stress, and gender dysphoria. Elizabeth also works with people exploring kink and alternative sexual cultures and the relational questions that can arise from those choices. Therapy with her is collaborative.
People can expect conversational sessions that look at feelings, history, and present-day choices. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and stronger relationships over time.
Online approaches that focus on relationships and healing
Elizabeth uses evidence-based and relational approaches that help people understand how past experiences affect present life. Attachment-focused work looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people build more supported ways of connecting and communicating. Family systems ideas help identify repeated dynamics and role patterns so someone can choose different responses rather than repeating old cycles.She also includes somatic awareness techniques that help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body, and develop simple practices to calm physical tension. These approaches are practical and aimed at reducing overwhelm, improving regulation, and supporting clearer decision making.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with each person to try methods that match their goals, personality, and current needs. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most, so clients are active partners in shaping their care.
Online formats provide flexibility and several ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts in writing and fit sessions into busy days. These options make it easier to maintain continuity and to work therapy into a practical routine.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York, Massachusetts, Maine
- Languages
- English