Elizabeth Allen
Compassionate social worker for everyday challenges
- Credentials
- LSCSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri, Kansas, Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Allen is a licensed social worker with 25 years of experience. She holds an LSCSW and an LCSW and practices in Missouri. She creates a calm, open space for people to talk through concerns without judgment.
Many reach out when feeling overwhelmed and unsure where to begin. Her work draws on client-centered therapy. That means conversations follow the person’s needs and pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is also used to spot unhelpful thinking and try different actions.
Background and approach
Together these approaches help address stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and trauma-related reactions. She supports people facing relationship struggles, grief, and challenges with sleep or eating. Addictions, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress are also within her practice focus.
Elizabeth has additional experience with caregiving stress, chronic illness, attachment and abandonment concerns, and issues that come with aging. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth. She helps clients set small, manageable goals and practice new skills between meetings.
Progress is treated as a step-by-step process rather than a race. Elizabeth also works with concerns like bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and intimacy-related difficulties. Her aim is steady support while clients try new ways of coping and relating to themselves and others.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person as an individual. The therapist follows the client’s lead, offering empathy and reflection so people can talk through what matters most. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings and make decisions.CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns. It pairs practical strategies with small experiments to try different behaviors and see what works. CBT is often used for anxiety, mood problems, sleep or eating issues, and stress management.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adapt techniques over time. Clients and the therapist decide together which tools to focus on and when to try new methods.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls and phone sessions allow real-time conversation, while live chat and text messaging offer shorter, flexible check-ins. These options let people access care from home or during a break and make it simpler to keep consistent progress.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Missouri, Kansas, Virginia
- Languages
- English
Next step
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