Elizbeth Keeney
Experienced LCSW for attachment and trauma
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elizbeth
Elizbeth Keeney is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people managing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and life changes. She writes plainly and listens closely to understand where someone is coming from. Her style suits people who want steady, experienced guidance from a clinician with three decades of practice.
Keeney starts by asking questions and really listening. She looks for places where early relationships shaped current patterns. Those early interruptions often show up as anxiety, depression, compulsions, or trouble connecting with others.
Background and approach
In sessions she blends careful attention with straightforward feedback. That combination creates room to let down defenses, name feelings, and work toward practical change. The work moves at a pace the client can handle.
Her background includes long experience in psychotherapy and ongoing professional development. She holds a Licensed Clinical Social Worker credential - LCSW - and is licensed in New York and New Jersey. Therapy with her often focuses on attachment, trauma, and the patterns that affect relationships and day-to-day functioning.
She uses methods that help people remember, feel, and integrate what they learn about themselves. The emphasis is on clear communication and gradual change.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connections and feelings. It helps people understand patterns that show up in close relationships and builds new ways to feel safer with others.Psychodynamic Therapy pays attention to recurring thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that come from past experiences. It helps uncover why certain reactions happen now and gives space to work through them over time.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will help determine which methods fit a person's goals, needs, and preferences rather than applying one fixed method. Clients and the therapist review what is working and adjust the plan together.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Sessions can take place by video call or phone, or through live chat and text-based messaging, which can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. These options allow ongoing contact and follow-up between sessions, supporting steady progress while accommodating different schedules and needs.
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.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Exploring how earlier relationships and patterns still shape the present, often over a longer stretch of time. It relies on conversation and reflection rather than exercises.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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