About Elizabeth
Elizabeth (Beth) Fitzpatrick is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, career setbacks, and major life changes. Beth aims to make the first step into therapy feel doable and constructive for anyone ready to try.
She creates an open space where feelings and thoughts can be shared without judgment. In sessions she focuses on practical ways to manage symptoms and make daily life easier.
How Elizabeth works
She often uses short-term strategies alongside deeper work on trauma and attachment. Clients may work on sleep, anger, self-esteem, or relationship and intimacy concerns. Beth also supports people dealing with addiction, compassion fatigue, caregiver strain, and serious illness related issues like cancer or hospice care.
Her approach blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with motivational techniques and solution-focused methods. For people impacted by abuse or traumatic events she draws on trauma-focused work to address painful memories and reactions. The therapist adjusts methods to match a person’s needs and goals rather than sticking to a single style.
Beth’s background includes long experience across clinical settings in California. She combines practical exercises, clear feedback, and coaching-style guidance when that fits a person’s goals. Her style is direct but warm, aiming to help people build realistic plans and steady progress.
Sessions tend to focus on small, achievable steps. Over time those steps become new habits and clearer choices for daily life. Beth works at a pace chosen with each person and helps track what’s working along the way.
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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
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate to online care
Elizabeth often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying new behaviors to change how someone feels. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and daily coping skills. She also uses Motivational Interviewing, a conversational method that helps people clarify their own reasons for change and build motivation for steps like reducing substance use or changing routines.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and adapt methods as needed. This collaborative process helps match techniques to what a person wants to accomplish and the pace they prefer.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different situations. Video visits allow face-to-face conversation and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when someone needs to send updates between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the same clinical approaches normally used in person.
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A practical next step
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