Elizabeth McKinley
Skilled counselor for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth McKinley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado. She brings 27 years of experience to family and parenting concerns, trauma, mood disorders, and everyday stresses. Elizabeth focuses on clear, practical steps to help people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strain.
She aims to make therapy straightforward and useful for someone juggling busy life demands. Her work blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools. Sessions often involve identifying patterns, trying small changes, and tracking what helps.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness strategies to reduce reactivity and on the Gottman Method for relationship work. Elizabeth emphasizes learning skills that can be used between sessions. Over nearly three decades she has supported people facing complicated family histories, adoption and foster care concerns, abandonment, and blended family stress.
Her background includes helping those dealing with domestic violence, caregiving burdens, and major life transitions. She frames these issues in everyday terms and focuses on coping steps that fit real life. People meet a calm, steady presence who prioritizes practical progress.
Elizabeth explains ideas plainly and tailors techniques to what each person needs. Her style is collaborative - she listens first and then suggests options to try. Sessions may include talk, guided exercises, and short behavioral experiments.
The goal is clearer choices, better coping, and a stronger sense of self over time.
Approaches that translate to online care
Elizabeth uses client-centered therapy to create a collaborative space where people feel heard; this approach focuses on understanding each person's view and building goals together. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, is used to identify patterns of thought and behavior, then test small, practical changes that reduce symptoms like anxiety or depression.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will discuss options and try different techniques based on the client's needs, goals, and preferences. She treats the process as a team effort and adjusts methods when something is not helping.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and comfort levels. These options make it easier to continue regular sessions during busy weeks or when travel is required. The variety of formats also lets people use short check-ins, longer weekly sessions, or between-session messaging to practice skills and get support when needed.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
Next step
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