About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Toback, LMHC, offers a warm, client-centered style that puts the person first. She draws on nearly four decades of practice in Florida to help people facing relationship strains, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, depression, anxiety, and addictive behaviors. Her approach is straightforward and respectful.
She treats each person as the expert on their own life. In sessions she uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy to spot and gently shift unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
Background and approach
She also incorporates dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and mindfulness exercises to reduce stress. Emotionally focused work helps when reconnecting around intimacy and relationship concerns is the goal. Elizabeth has long experience guiding people through grief, body image worries, and identity questions including LGBT-related concerns.
She also addresses family and adoption-related stress, abandonment and attachment issues, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and dissociation. Her background includes helping with communication and commitment problems, codependency, and other relational challenges. People can expect practical, conversational sessions that emphasize small, doable changes.
She listens for strengths and builds on what already works. The tone is collaborative rather than prescriptive. Therapy is offered in English and is provided through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Elizabeth explains the process clearly and helps clients choose approaches that match their goals.
How therapy approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting people where they are. The therapist helps clients name their concerns and builds on existing strengths to set goals and try changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and habit-driven issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes it easier to pick between emotion-focused work, skills-based practice, or mindfulness tools depending on each person’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people speak face-to-face when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be helpful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging provide a flexible way to process feelings between sessions or for those who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to keep consistent progress without long travel times.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- 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
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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