Elisabeth Burn
Calm, practical support for parents and adults
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elisabeth
Elisabeth Burn is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 10 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, relatable support for people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, parenting questions, and other life challenges. Elisabeth keeps sessions straightforward and grounded so parents can understand next steps quickly.
She uses a warm, interactive style and treats people with respect and compassion. Sessions avoid stigmatizing labels and concentrate on strengths and next steps.
Background and approach
Elisabeth listens closely and adjusts the conversation to what matters most to each person. Her background includes a decade in community mental health, where she supported people dealing with trauma, domestic violence, and perinatal and postnatal mood concerns. That experience shaped a flexible approach that blends practical skills with emotional understanding.
Common tools in her work include cognitive techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, skills from dialectical behavior therapy to manage intense emotions, and client-centered conversation to clarify values and goals. She draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing when helpful to build momentum. Elisabeth explains options, practices new skills in session, and helps clients adapt strategies to daily life.
She aims to help people feel more able to handle stressful moments and make choices that match their priorities.
Approaches that fit everyday life online
Client-centered work puts the person’s goals and values at the center of each session. Elisabeth uses this approach to listen first, then help people choose small, realistic steps that matter to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on noticing thoughts and trying different responses. It helps when anxiety, low mood, or unhelpful thinking patterns get in the way of daily routines and parenting tasks.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers practical skills for handling strong emotions and improving communication. These skills can be useful during heated moments or when managing intense stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elisabeth collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. She checks in and adjusts techniques as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit support into busy schedules, reduce travel, and keep care consistent during life changes. Elisabeth uses the different formats to practice skills, review progress, and stay connected between sessions when needed.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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