About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Tanner-Horn offers calm, steady support for people facing major emotional challenges. She is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of practice and focuses on stress, anxiety, grief, depression, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people feel understood and regain a sense of control.
She listens closely to each person’s story and helps them name what feels most urgent.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on practical coping steps, clearer decision making, and ways to manage day-to-day stress. Elizabeth uses evidence-based techniques to help people practice new habits that reduce overwhelm. Her approach is collaborative.
She works together with each person to set realistic goals and track small gains. Treatment plans are adjusted over time so strategies stay useful as circumstances change. Elizabeth brings two decades of experience as a Connecticut LCSW to her work.
That background helps her guide people through grief and other deeply emotional periods with steady presence and practical support. She aims to help people move forward with more confidence and self-compassion. People who prefer a calm, experienced clinician for focused, issue-driven therapy often find her approach helpful.
The emphasis is on usable tools, clearer choices, and restoring daily functioning rather than lengthy theory or jargon.
Therapeutic approaches and flexible online care
Elizabeth uses well-established, evidence-based techniques to help people regain stability and cope with strong emotions. One commonly used approach focuses on teaching practical coping skills and behavioral strategies to reduce anxiety and manage daily stress. These techniques involve small, doable exercises aimed at lowering immediate distress and improving routine functioning.Another approach emphasizes working through grief and major life changes by helping people process emotions, make difficult decisions, and rebuild a sense of meaning. This work often blends supportive conversation with concrete planning, so people can move forward while honoring what they have lost.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work itself. Elizabeth treats the selection of approaches as a collaborative process, discussing goals and preferences and adjusting methods over time. She helps clients weigh options and choose practices that fit their needs and pace.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits for this work. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it simple to get brief support between sessions or to share updates without scheduling a full appointment. These options make consistent care more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English