About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Oregon. She has five years of clinical experience as a psychotherapist and over eight years working in social work and mental health roles. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or major life changes.
Her style is warm, straightforward, and non-judgmental. Elizabeth frames sessions around what each person needs. She uses client-centered conversations to help people describe their struggles and figure out next steps.
Background and approach
She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to look at how relationships shape patterns of feeling and relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are part of her work when people want concrete strategies to shift thinking and behavior. She also incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills and mindfulness practices to manage intense emotions and build distress tolerance.
Elizabeth has worked with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, bipolar and mood disorders, grief, parenting stress, relationship and intimacy issues, and workplace problems. She has experience supporting people with post-traumatic stress, panic, seasonal affective disorder, and issues around self-esteem and self-love. Her sessions tend to focus on practical steps that fit into daily life.
She collaborates with each person to set goals, practice new skills between sessions, and track progress over time.
How attachment work and skills translate to online therapy
Elizabeth often uses attachment-based ideas to understand how early and current relationships affect feelings and behavior. This approach looks at patterns in how people connect, cope with loss, and respond to stress, and it can help with relationship and intimacy concerns as well as grief and abandonment issues.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small behavioral experiments. CBT provides clear, practical steps for tackling anxiety, depression, panic, and mood-related symptoms. Mindfulness practices are added when helpful to build present-moment awareness and manage strong emotions without reacting on impulse.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life, then shape a collaborative plan. Clients are invited to try tools in session and practice them between meetings to see what fits best.
Online formats offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for quick check-ins, coaching-style prompts, or emotional support between sessions. These options help people access consistent care while juggling work, parenting, or other commitments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English