About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Shartle is a licensed professional clinical counselor who brings 15 years of experience to the work. She focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, addictions, grief, and major life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people find practical steps forward.
She listens for what matters most and helps clients name the problems that get in the way. Sessions often focus on real-world skills like communication, coping strategies, and rebuilding confidence after hard experiences.
Background and approach
People who feel stuck by relationship problems, career strain, or recurring worry will find structured support and steady feedback. Elizabeth uses several evidence-informed approaches to guide sessions, with an emphasis on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. That means she helps clients notice unhelpful patterns, try small experiments, and commit to values-based changes.
She also draws on client-centered and solution-focused ideas to keep the work practical and person-centered. Her background includes long-term work with adults facing trauma, addiction, mood disorders, and caregiving stress. Elizabeth works from Ohio and holds an LPCC credential.
She offers a calm presence for people navigating transitions like divorce, job change, or parenting strain. Therapy with her is collaborative and paced to the client's goals. She aims to help people build clearer choices, better routines, and more comfortable relationships with difficult feelings.
How her approaches translate to online care
Elizabeth frequently draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in online sessions. ACT helps people notice difficult thoughts and commit to actions that match their values, which can ease avoidance and build a clearer sense of purpose. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors, helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and comfort level, adjusting techniques as progress is made. Clients and therapist review what works and change course when needed to stay focused on practical results.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when video isn’t needed, and live chat or text messaging support quick check-ins and ongoing momentum between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still following a structured treatment plan.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, California
- Languages
- English
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