Elizabeth Coutts
Experienced counselor for life and family challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Coutts is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Pennsylvania. She has 34 years of experience working with people facing difficult life moments. Elizabeth focuses on issues such as depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, grief, parenting concerns, and relationship difficulties.
She aims to meet clients where they are and to treat everyone with respect and sensitivity. She uses a mix of practical therapies to match each person's needs. Elizabeth draws from cognitive behavioral therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and from acceptance and commitment therapy to support values-based action.
Background and approach
She also uses client-centered and attachment-based ideas to build understanding and a safe working relationship. In sessions she listens first, then shapes a plan with clear steps people can try between meetings. She explains techniques in plain language and focuses on skills that can be used day to day.
Conversations are tailored to each person rather than following a fixed script. Her approach blends problem-solving with emotional support. That means teaching coping skills, tracking progress, and adjusting the plan when needed.
Elizabeth emphasizes practical steps so people feel more confident handling stress, life changes, and strained relationships. Anyone starting therapy can expect direct, compassionate care and straightforward feedback. The work moves at a pace set by the client, with attention to what matters most in their life and goals.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. ACT is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns through concrete exercises and practice between sessions; it is often helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in relationships and helps people understand how early bonds affect current connections and responses to loss or conflict.Choosing the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, adjusting the plan if something is not helpful. That collaborative process aims to find practical tools and an approach that feels right for you.
Online therapy makes those approaches easier to fit into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions offer a simpler option, and live chat or text messaging provide flexible, shorter-touch ways to stay connected between meetings. These formats support ongoing skill practice, check-ins, and step-by-step progress while giving options that match different schedules and comfort levels.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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