About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Newman is a licensed counselor with six years of clinical experience who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, depression, trauma, and related challenges.
Background and approach
She brings a client-centered, mindfulness-informed outlook to her work, combining evidence-based methods with practical, goal-oriented planning to address stress, emotional regulation, and coping with life changes. Elizabeth holds LCPC and LMHC credentials and practices from Washington, offering therapeutic support tailored to each person's needs.
Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques with mindfulness and motivational interviewing to strengthen coping skills, improve distress tolerance, and address patterns shaped by attachment and past experiences. She emphasizes collaboration, helping clients explore how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and identifying steps to shift unhelpful patterns while building on personal strengths.
Elizabeth frames therapy as a journey toward clearer goals and greater self-understanding, and she encourages clients to engage actively in shaping their progress.
Approach-driven online therapy that builds skills and insight
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the therapist follows the client's lead and supports personal growth; this helps people clarify goals and feel understood as they work through stress and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical strategies to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, making it useful for anxiety, depression, and improving day-to-day coping. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness, which can be helpful for intense emotions and difficulties managing reactions.Finding the right combination of approaches is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist collaborates with each client to determine which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. This collaborative stance means approaches may be blended and adjusted over time based on what is most effective for the individual.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, providing flexibility for different schedules and communication styles. These formats make it easier to access consistent care, practice skills between meetings, and maintain momentum even when life is busy or travel makes in-person work difficult.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Washington
- Languages
- English