About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Toussaint is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing relationship strain, LGBTQ+ concerns, trauma and abuse, parenting stress, addiction, grief, and problems with self-esteem. She speaks English and offers several online session types to fit different schedules.
Toussaint centers sessions on the person's story and strengths. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s goals guide the work.
Background and approach
Conversations are straightforward and practical, aimed at making daily life feel more manageable. Her methods draw on attachment-informed ideas and psychodynamic perspectives to look at how past relationships shape present reactions. She also uses client-centered practices that prioritize listening and reflecting, and mindfulness techniques to help with grounding and emotion regulation.
Toussaint has a background supporting people through relationship conflict, blended family issues, divorce and separation, and caregiver stress. She also addresses abandonment and attachment concerns, codependency, communication problems, and dissociation when these come up in sessions. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Insurance or payment details vary by location and are handled through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling is arranged based on therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches come alive online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape present feelings and reactions. In online sessions this approach helps people notice patterns in relationships and practice different ways of relating and setting boundaries.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels heard. It creates a space to talk through difficult decisions, to build confidence, and to set goals at a comfortable pace.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple grounding and breathing practices that lower anxiety and improve focus. These skills are useful for coping with intense emotions, trauma triggers, or everyday stress.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans can be adjusted over time based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people work face-to-face when a fuller conversation is helpful. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or when being off camera is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or moments when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or busy family life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English