About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Brennan is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with eight years of clinical experience. She began in public mental health and has worked across direct care, assessment, case management, and therapy. Elizabeth brings a practical, empathetic presence to sessions and values creativity as part of the healing process.
She helps people facing anxiety, depression, phobias, trauma, and stress. She also supports those dealing with addictions, sleep or eating concerns, and challenges around intimacy and relationships.
Background and approach
Elizabeth works with people navigating neurodiversity, adoption and foster care questions, caregiving strain, and chronic illness or pain. Her style is patient and collaborative. Sessions focus on understanding current struggles, developing coping skills, and finding what feels meaningful to each person.
She uses straightforward, evidence-informed methods and encourages creative expression when it fits the client’s goals. Elizabeth trained in social work and completed a master’s degree in 2017. She has experience with community art projects and values practical tools alongside emotional work.
Clients can expect calm guidance and a steady presence while they learn new ways to manage symptoms and daily life. She lives in Michigan and conducts sessions in English. Outside of therapy, Elizabeth enjoys pottery, watercolor painting, cooking, gardening, fermenting, and travel.
Her approach blends real-life skills with attention to personal strengths.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy centers on the client's own goals and experiences. The therapist listens deeply, helps reflect what’s happening, and supports the person's choices. This approach is useful when someone needs a supportive space to talk and make sense of tough emotions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It uses concrete exercises and homework to build new habits and reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. CBT is often used for specific problems such as panic, phobias, and worry.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Elizabeth will work together with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. She adapts techniques over time so sessions stay relevant and helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit a short break or require less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can be useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or for people who prefer not to use video. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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