Elizabeth Shields, LMHC, LIMHP - Therapist in Nebraska

About Elizabeth

Elizabeth Shields is a licensed mental health clinician who uses a person-centered approach. She focuses on building trust and a steady therapeutic relationship. Sessions aim to be a calm place to talk honestly, sort through thoughts, and set realistic goals.

Elizabeth holds LMHC and LIMHP credentials and brings four years of clinical experience in her practice. She uses approaches that help people identify values, manage difficult emotions, and change unhelpful thinking.

Background and approach

Therapy often starts with understanding what matters most to the client. From there she works on practical steps and coping skills that fit daily life. Elizabeth emphasizes resilience and steady progress rather than quick fixes.

Her background includes work with stress, anxiety, mood concerns such as depression and bipolar, and challenges like grief, addiction, and ADHD. She also addresses relationship and intimacy-related issues, communication difficulties, caregiver stress, and body image concerns. Elizabeth describes her work as holistic and strength-focused, looking at the whole person rather than isolated symptoms.

Clients can expect a conversational, evolving process. Sessions balance listening with concrete strategies from evidence-based methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Elizabeth’s aim is to support healthy coping and help clients move toward values-based living.

She practices in Nebraska and offers care in English. International clients may be accepted through online formats. The emphasis is on creating a steady, respectful space to work toward meaningful change.

Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small committed steps toward them. It helps when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living the life someone wants. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and many day-to-day problems.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. She starts with conversation and then introduces techniques that feel most useful, adjusting the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel. The formats also let people use the therapeutic approaches above in ways that suit their routine, whether that means real-time skill coaching on a call or brief check-ins by message.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does Elizabeth often address?

Elizabeth works with a range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, addictions, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy-related difficulties.

What is her therapeutic style like?

Her style is person-centered and strengths-based with an emphasis on building trust. She blends listening with practical strategies from approaches such as ACT and CBT.

What experience does she bring?

She has four years of clinical experience and describes her practice as holistic, focusing on the whole person and on steady therapeutic relationships.

Where is she licensed and located?

Elizabeth is licensed as LMHC and LIMHP with IA LMHC 133141 and NE LIMHP 3905, and she practices in Nebraska.

Which languages are supported for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English. She is also able to work with international clients through online formats.

What session formats are available?

Therapy can be delivered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.

How is cost handled?

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

How do I begin working with her?

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

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Family conflicts
Self esteem

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 4 years
Licensed: Nebraska, Iowa
Languages: English

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