Elizabeth (Beth) Fitzpatrick
Compassionate practical support for life changes
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth (Beth) Fitzpatrick is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, parenting concerns, and life transitions. She has 25 years of professional experience and offers straightforward support for issues like depression, sleeping problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Beth works to create a direct and welcoming space where clients can talk without judgment.
She encourages practical steps so clients can feel steadier and more in control.
Background and approach
In sessions Beth uses clear conversation and goal-setting. She listens closely, helps name the problem, and then outlines small, doable steps to try between meetings. Her work includes addressing relationship and intimacy issues, addiction concerns, and problems stemming from trauma or abuse.
She also supports people facing caregiver stress, cancer-related challenges, and end-of-life matters. Beth draws from approaches such as cognitive behavioral strategies, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques to shape each plan. That means she will help reframe unhelpful thoughts, build motivation for change, and focus on practical solutions that fit daily life.
She aims to tailor methods to each person’s needs rather than using a single fixed approach. Therapy with Beth can include talking through career uncertainty, processing loss, or managing anger and control issues. She also addresses specific family-area concerns like blended family dynamics and communication problems.
Her California license is LCSW 18883 and she provides services in English. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session. Beth supports clients who prefer phone, video, live chat, or text-based sessions and helps them craft a plan that fits their rhythm and goals.
Practical approaches for online family and parenting concerns
Elizabeth uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change thinking patterns that increase stress or anxiety. CBT involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to improve mood and sleep. Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses to help people find their own reasons for change; it is useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Beth will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences and adjust the plan as progress is made. She pays attention to what works in daily life and tweaks techniques to match the client’s rhythm.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy family schedules. Beth offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose a format that feels most manageable. These options support continuity of care, flexible scheduling, and quick check-ins between longer sessions.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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