Elizabeth "Libby" Burris
Practical support for families and parents
- Credentials
- LPC, LCMHC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth "Libby" Burris helps families and parents manage a wide range of concerns. She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, anger, depression, ADHD, addictions, relationship and family issues, grief, parenting, and self-esteem. Libby is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC and a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - LCMHC with twelve years working in mental and behavioral health.
She practices from North Carolina and conducts sessions in English. Libby uses straightforward, collaborative sessions that focus on what a family or parent needs right now.
Background and approach
She listens first, then helps set clear, practical goals. Conversations often include strategies to improve communication, manage strong emotions, and build routines that support children and parents. She adapts her pace to each household and avoids a one-size-fits-all method.
Her approach draws from several evidence-based methods. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and try new actions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how relationships and early bonds affect current family patterns.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy can guide couples or parents through strong feelings to repair connections. Libby has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings and with children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Her background includes supporting families through behavioral issues, ADHD, autism, bipolar disorder, and substance use concerns.
That range informs how she tailors plans for each family. Practical matters are handled plainly: sessions can be video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. International clients are not supported.
To begin, a parent completes a short questionnaire and schedules according to the listed process.
How therapeutic approaches shape online family work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how close relationships influence behavior. It looks at patterns between parents and children or partners and helps rebuild trust and safety in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and managing strong emotions at home. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps partners or parents name and move through intense feelings so they can reconnect and solve conflicts more calmly.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each family or parent to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can shift over time as problems change or progress is made.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy households. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules permit. Phone, live chat, and text-based messaging provide shorter check-ins, tools between sessions, or alternatives when video is not practical. These options make it easier to fit consistent therapy into family life while maintaining continuity and 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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania, North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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