Elizabeth's (she/her) counseling style is supportive. She is LGBTQIA+ affirmative and seeks ongoing training to counsel from an anti-racist/decolonizing perspective. Her work focuses on supporting anxiety, depression, and trauma with special interest in supporting BIPOC and transgender individuals.

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Using a person centered approach that recognizes each person as the expert in their own story reduces the power differential that innately exists in a therapy setting. Elizabeth enjoys incorporating aspects of Internal Family Systems (IFS) to acknowledge different "parts" within each person and the relationships between the parts (similar to relationships between members of a family).

 

Bottom-up approaches to therapy allow us to notice our body's subconscious response in real-time when approaching different topics. For example, when recalling a frightening experience, one may discover their your shoulders lift and tighten automatically. Wheras top-down approaches such as CBT may aim to shift unhelpful thought processes to reduce distress, Elizabeth joins with individuals in their emotional truths (rather than trying to change seemingly "stubborn" thought processes) and uses curiosity to better understand the responses of the body and mind that may not feel logical or realistic but actually are more than not.

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Many people enter therapy with trauma (religious trauma from experiences with dominant faith groups in TX, childhood abuse or neglect, being a person of color or queer or disabled or neurodivergent in a world that is violent toward "differences", etc.) and Elizabeth encourages you to ask any questions that would allow you to feel safe in sessions. ​

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