Elizabeth Holden
Supportive counselor for family and life challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed in
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Holden is a licensed professional counselor who helps adults and families manage stress, anxiety, depression, parenting challenges, and life transitions. Her style is straightforward and practical. She focuses on clear goals, improved communication, and building coping skills.
Parents reading on a phone will find short, direct guidance and a calm presence in sessions. She uses plain talk to help people name problems and shape usable solutions. Sessions emphasize realistic steps for daily life, like routines, boundaries, and ways to handle intense emotions.
Background and approach
Elizabeth works with issues related to attention differences, addictions, anger, self-esteem, career stress, and compassion fatigue, among other concerns. With 21 years of experience and an Oregon LPC - OR LPC C7235 - she draws on several evidence-informed approaches. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing strong emotions and impulsivity. She also uses Client-Centered and Emotionally-Focused ideas to strengthen relationships and build trust in the room. Elizabeth pays attention to family dynamics and parenting patterns without assuming any single cause.
She helps people untangle communication problems, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and family of origin patterns. Practical tools and clear goals are central to her work. Sessions are offered in English and focus on what a client wants to change now.
She supports problem solving around fertility and aging concerns, hoarding and impulsivity, and relationship strains. The approach is collaborative and steady, aimed at creating small changes that add up over time.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and following the client's lead. Online sessions let a therapist reflect what matters most to a person and help them find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote work this translates to concrete homework, tracking patterns between sessions, and practicing new behaviors in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then suggest methods that fit those needs. That decision is collaborative and can change over time as progress is made or new issues arise.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These formats add flexibility for busy parents and people with complicated schedules. Video lets for face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler for short check-ins, and messaging supports brief, focused exchanges between sessions. This range of options helps make regular, practical therapy more manageable for everyday life.
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
- Family conflicts
- Depression
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
Next step
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