About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Stivers is a licensed clinical social worker with sixteen years of experience who practices in Maine. She brings a steady presence to appointments and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns. Elizabeth uses straightforward, practical strategies so conversations stay clear and easy to follow.
She trained in psychology at The University of Texas at Austin and earned a Master of Social Work from The University of Chicago.
Background and approach
Elizabeth has worked in many settings including hospitals, community centers, residential placements, outpatient clinics, and independent practice. That range has shaped how she notices both individual needs and wider family dynamics. Elizabeth tends to center sessions on clear communication skills and goal-focused work.
She helps clients identify patterns that get in the way and practices small changes that build over time. For people facing life transitions or caregiving stress, she offers tools to reduce overwhelm and strengthen coping. Her approach draws from several methods such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused methods, existential ideas, and EMDR.
She uses these tools to tailor sessions to the person in front of her rather than following a single script. Parents and caregivers often come with concerns about adoption or foster care, blended family issues, autism spectrum needs, or fatherhood questions. Elizabeth listens for practical problems first and then helps create manageable steps toward better daily functioning.
Sessions include straightforward discussion, skill practice, and planning for real-world situations. Her goal is to make therapy useful and understandable so people can try changes between visits and notice progress over time.
How Elizabeth’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and following each person's lead so the work reflects their goals and pace. It helps when someone needs a space to be heard and to build confidence in decision making.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It is practical for anxiety, depression, and many everyday problems because it gives concrete skills to practice between sessions.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional intensity. It is often used when trauma or past painful events interfere with daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods together. That collaborative process helps shape a plan that fits the person's situation.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation when bandwidth is available. Phone sessions work well when camera use is not practical. Live chat and text messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing reflection between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Maine
- Languages
- English
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