About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Stivers is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 16 years of practice experience. She offers practical, down-to-earth help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and life transitions. Elizabeth works from Maine and draws on long experience across community, hospital, and outpatient settings.
She trained in psychology at The University of Texas at Austin and earned a master’s degree in social work from The University of Chicago. Elizabeth has worked in homes, community centers, residential placements, and independent practice.
Background and approach
This variety informs how she adapts to different needs and situations. Her approach focuses on clear communication and concrete skills. She teaches ways to improve communication, manage strong emotions, and make chosen life changes.
Sessions aim to increase understanding of how thoughts and feelings affect relationships and daily life. Elizabeth helps with parenting and family concerns by attending to each person’s needs while keeping sight of the broader family picture. She also supports people coping with adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and challenges related to autism and developmental differences.
She uses a mix of approaches matched to the person’s situation. That can mean practical problem-solving, looking at emotional bonds, or addressing traumatic memories when relevant. The goal is steady, usable progress rather than quick fixes.
Approaches that translate well to online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting the person’s own goals. The therapist follows the client’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them find their next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood. It uses practical exercises and thought records to change patterns that cause distress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, addresses traumatic memories by combining focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation to ease the emotional charge of painful events.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That choice can change over time as progress is made and priorities shift, and treatment is shaped together rather than fixed at the start.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy schedules and different needs. Video calls let people work face to face without travel. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, between-session support, and when writing helps process thoughts. Together, these options make therapy easier to fit into everyday life and allow licensed professionals to use the same approaches they would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English