About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ramirez-Weaver is a licensed clinical social worker with 23 years of experience helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship strain, and ADHD-related challenges. She speaks English and Spanish and offers sessions by video, phone, chat, or text. Elizabeth focuses on practical steps to make daily life easier and to reduce overwhelming feelings.
She listens for what matters most to each person and adapts conversations to fit those needs.
Background and approach
Elizabeth pays attention to difficulties with planning, organization, memory, and motivation, and she supports people who struggle with attachment, abandonment, and identity development. She also addresses concerns like body image, eating and food-related issues, and cultural or racial stressors. Her approach is flexible and draws on proven therapeutic techniques.
Elizabeth may use methods that help change unhelpful thinking, explore parts of the self, and build emotional and coping skills. She aims to collaborate on clear, achievable goals rather than offer one-size-fits-all solutions. Sessions are practical and focused on small, usable changes.
Elizabeth works with each person to build routines, communication skills, and strategies for managing panic or low mood. She brings a respectful and compassionate presence to conversations about difficult experiences. Elizabeth’s practice supports people who want steady, experienced guidance through hard moments and life transitions.
She emphasizes partnership in therapy and encourages a pace that feels manageable for each individual.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Elizabeth draws on evidence-based techniques to guide work on mood, anxiety, trauma, and executive functioning. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood; it often includes practical exercises to try between sessions. Internal Family Systems looks at parts of a person that hold worry, shame, or fear and helps them relate to those parts with curiosity and care; it can be useful for trauma, persistent shame, and identity concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes building emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills to manage intense emotions and improve relationships.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. Elizabeth will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which techniques to try, and the plan can change as progress is made.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging offer a flexible way to stay connected between appointments or to share reflections in writing. These options support consistent, practical work from different locations and schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish