About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Carter is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 32 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, addiction concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related issues. Elizabeth aims to make the first step toward change feel doable and supportive.
She builds a calm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk about what matters most. Sessions emphasize listening first, then practical steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
She explains tools in plain language and checks in about how they feel in real life. Her work draws on methods like cognitive behavioral approaches to spot unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based strategies to live with difficult feelings. Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at relationship patterns and connection.
Dialectical behavior elements help with emotion regulation and coping during intense moments. Elizabeth has spent decades helping people cope with grief, caregiving strain, chronic illness, parenting stress, and career transitions. She also addresses issues such as body image, ADHD, and substance-related struggles, tailoring the focus to each person’s life.
Over time she aims to make strategies feel useful and manageable. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. Practical matters such as scheduling and formats are handled through the therapy platform, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Online approaches that address thoughts, feelings, and relationships
Elizabeth often uses cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood. CBT breaks problems into small, manageable steps and teaches skills you can practice between sessions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is another approach she uses to help people accept difficult emotions while taking action that matches their values; it can be helpful for anxiety, chronic stress, and life transitions.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how past relationship experiences shape current patterns. That work helps when connection, trust, or intimacy are central concerns. Choosing which approach to use is a team effort - the therapist and client talk about goals, try methods, and adjust based on what feels most useful.
The online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions are like a traditional meeting and work well for in-depth conversation and exercises. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when you prefer not to be on camera. Chat and messaging let you check in between sessions or share short updates when schedules are tight. These options add flexibility so therapy can fit into work, parenting, caregiving, or travel routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- 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 of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 32 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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