Elizabeth Malchow, LCSW - Therapist in Wisconsin

About Elizabeth

Elizabeth Malchow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with seven years of experience. She practices in Wisconsin and brings a calm, respectful approach to sessions. Elizabeth focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting concerns, and major life changes.

She uses practical, concrete tools in sessions. Elizabeth draws from cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment-based ideas, dialectical behavior concepts, and emotionally-focused methods to help people notice patterns and try new ways of relating.

Background and approach

She often includes simple mindfulness exercises and hands-on activities that build awareness and everyday skills. Elizabeth aims to make therapy feel collaborative and tailored. She listens for what matters most, then adjusts the plan to fit each person’s needs.

Work can include talking through difficult memories, learning coping skills, or strengthening communication and boundaries. Her background in social work included training in mental health and family-related concerns. That training informs how she thinks about connection, roles, and care responsibilities.

Elizabeth pays attention to life transitions, caregiver stress, chronic health impacts, and relationship patterns that affect daily life. People meet her for help with parenting stress, self-esteem struggles, bipolar mood management, career pressures, and recovery after trauma or separation. Sessions are practical and paced to suit what someone can manage right now.

She encourages small, steady steps toward clearer thinking and steadier routines.

Online approaches that focus on connection and skills

Attachment-Based Therapy emphasizes understanding how early relationships shape present patterns. It helps people notice where past hurts affect current connections and builds steps to feel steadier in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on what we think and do day to day. It helps identify unhelpful thoughts and tries new, practical behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and overwhelm. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at feelings in the moment and how partners or family members respond to each other. It can be used to improve emotional understanding and communication. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust as progress is made. Online sessions allow the same types of work using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, maintain continuity through life changes, and practice skills in real time between meetings. Licensed professionals can offer structured exercises, mindfulness prompts, homework ideas, and moment-to-moment coaching through these options to support steady progress.

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.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?

Elizabeth works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, trauma and abuse, relationship and communication problems, career stress, bipolar management, and coping with life changes.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is warm and collaborative. She uses clear, practical exercises, listening first and then offering tools that fit everyday life.

What training and experience does she have?

She has seven years of clinical experience and completed a master’s degree in social work with a mental health focus before becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.

Where is she licensed and practicing?

She holds a Wisconsin Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential, WI LCSW 9796-123, and practices in Wisconsin.

Which languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible ways to connect.

How does cost and payment work?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What should I do to begin working with her?

Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 7 years
Licensed: Wisconsin
Languages: English

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