About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Allen uses a client-centered approach combined with cognitive behavioral strategies to help people find clearer paths through hard times. She is a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience in Missouri. Elizabeth focuses on practical steps and honest conversation so clients can make steady progress.
She supports people coping with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma and abuse. She also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, addictions, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting strain, and career stress.
How Elizabeth works
Additional areas include ADHD, bipolar concerns, caregiving stress, chronic illness, body image, and recovery from separation or domestic violence. Elizabeth keeps sessions straightforward and grounded. She listens first, then helps people notice patterns that make life harder.
Together they test small changes and skills that reduce intense emotions and improve daily routines. Her work blends the person-centered focus on respect and understanding with cognitive-behavioral tools that change thoughts and actions. This mix is useful for managing anxiety, mood swings, compulsive behaviors, and trauma responses.
She offers conversations that aim to build coping tools and clearer choices. People who want a practical, empathetic approach to real-life problems often prefer this style. Elizabeth brings long experience and a calm, steady presence to each session.
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What Elizabeth works with
The areas below are the ones Elizabeth selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LSCSW, LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Client-centered and CBT approaches for online care
Elizabeth combines client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy to tailor online sessions to each person. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and building trust so people can speak openly about their concerns. This approach helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort feelings and make choices.Cognitive behavioral therapy emphasizes identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and practicing concrete skills to change them. CBT techniques are helpful for anxiety, mood issues, troubling habits, sleep problems, and coping with stressful life changes.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Elizabeth will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Together they set clear aims and try strategies that can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and text messaging lets people send updates or practice skills between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied life demands.
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