About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Toback uses a client-centered approach to guide people through relationship and trauma concerns. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, practicing in Florida with decades of experience. Her style is straightforward and supportive as she helps people take the first steps toward change.
She focuses on common struggles such as relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, anxiety, depression, and addictive patterns. She also works with concerns around grief, body image, and LGBT-related issues.
Background and approach
Elizabeth draws on mindfulness and emotion-focused techniques when clients need help naming and sitting with difficult feelings. Her work balances practical skills and reflective conversation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered when people need strategies for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Elizabeth believes clients know their own story and brings a respectful, collaborative tone to sessions. She helps people identify strengths and small steps they can try between meetings.
Many clients find this mix of skills and support useful for making lasting changes. Her practice also addresses specific topics like abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and dissociation. She adapts methods to fit each person’s needs and life situation.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping the client lead the conversation; it supports people who want a respectful, nonjudgmental space to talk about relationships, grief, or identity concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical steps to notice unhelpful thoughts and try behavioral experiments; it can help with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and patterns tied to addiction.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on their concerns, goals, and what feels most useful. That shared planning helps tailor sessions so the techniques match daily life and real challenges.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and fit different routines. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and texting are useful for brief updates, mood tracking, or practicing tools between longer appointments. These options aim to make consistent care more flexible and easier to use in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English