About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Shields is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on building a trusting relationship first. She keeps sessions focused on what matters to each person and helps them find practical ways to cope with stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. She uses a person-centered, strengths-based approach that emphasizes the whole person.
That means conversations look at values, daily routines, relationships, and small steps toward goals. Sessions are collaborative and tailored to where someone is right now.
Background and approach
Elizabeth draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice thoughts without being ruled by them. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try new behaviors. Attachment-informed work is part of her focus when relationship patterns and closeness are central concerns.
She has four years of clinical experience and holds licenses in Nebraska and Iowa as a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor. Elizabeth brings personal perspective as a parent of a child with multiple disabilities, which informs her interest in caregiver stress and related challenges.
Common concerns she addresses include depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, addictions, sleep problems, self-esteem, career stress, and intimacy-related issues. She also supports people dealing with body image, communication problems, codependency, and chronic illness stress. Sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
Elizabeth aims to help people develop coping skills, build resilience, and move toward goals at a comfortable pace.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Elizabeth often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes because it focuses on what matters most rather than on trying to eliminate every uncomfortable thought.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot patterns in thinking and behavior. CBT helps with sleep problems, mood shifts, and unhelpful reactions by testing new ways of thinking and small behavior experiments.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to pick or combine methods that match their goals and preferences. That plan can change as progress is made and new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions need less bandwidth, live chat can be a quicker check-in, and text messaging lets people send updates between meetings. These options let therapy fit around work, caregiving, or mobility needs while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Iowa
- Languages
- English