About Elsbeth
Elsbeth Riemer is a licensed clinician who helps people facing anxiety, stress, phobias, trauma, and relationship or family concerns. She brings 20 years of practice as a mental health counselor and marriage and family therapist. Her approach aims to be direct, grounded, and mindful of real-life pressures parents and adults carry.
Elsbeth begins by looking at the whole person and how they fit into their day-to-day life. She blends attention to how the body reacts with talk-based techniques so clients can better manage fear and overwhelming feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions often include practical skills to handle anxiety and habit patterns that get in the way. Her style is warm and straightforward, with room for gentle humor when it helps people feel connected. She draws on attachment ideas to talk about how relationships shape reactions.
She also uses elements of cognitive behavioral work to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. EFT-informed ideas guide conversations about closeness and communication, and DBT strategies offer concrete coping skills for strong emotions. Those methods are applied in a down-to-earth way rather than academic language, so clients can try techniques between sessions.
Clients learn step-by-step tools for sleep, impulse control, anger, grief, and life transitions. She also supports people navigating adoption, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and questions about identity. Elsbeth practices in Massachusetts and conducts sessions in English.
Approaches for online anxiety and relationship work
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can use this approach to look at patterns in bonds and to practice new ways of relating that reduce anxiety and improve connection.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes clear listening and meeting the person where they are. In remote sessions this means the therapist follows the client’s pace, reflects concerns, and helps clients identify what matters most to them in everyday life.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors that keep problems going. In online work CBT is useful for breaking down fears, creating step-by-step exposure for phobias, and building routines for sleep or mood regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, symptoms, and preferences. That collaborative planning is done early and revisited as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions can be a shorter check-in or an option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging let clients send updates, try brief coping prompts, or check in between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other daily demands while working on anxiety, phobias, relationships, and life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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