About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Carter is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Florida with 32 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction concerns, and parenting challenges. Elizabeth aims to make the first step toward change feel less daunting by offering steady, practical support.
Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings are talked through openly. She listens closely and helps people name what matters most to them.
How Elizabeth works
Sessions tend to be straightforward and focused on real-life problems, not clinical jargon. Elizabeth draws on several therapies to match each person’s needs. She uses skills to handle strong emotions, strategies to change unhelpful thinking, and ways to strengthen close connections.
These approaches are adapted to the individual rather than applied as a fixed program. Her background includes long experience with mood concerns, attention difficulties, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, and caregiving stress. She also works with people facing chronic illness, body image struggles, adoption and attachment questions, and career or life transition challenges.
Work with Elizabeth typically involves setting clear, achievable goals and practicing tools between sessions. She helps people build coping skills for anger, sleep problems, and addictive behaviors. The emphasis is on steady progress and practical steps that fit each person’s life.
Elizabeth lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- 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
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 32 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that translate to online care
Elizabeth commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, and Client-Centered Therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking committed actions, which helps people move forward when stuck by shame, anxiety, or avoidance. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people feel safer and more connected to others. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and reflecting so the person feels understood and can explore their own solutions.Deciding which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different ways of working until a good fit emerges. That might mean combining skills training, practical exercises, and reflective conversation based on what helps you most.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or chat is useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between visits.
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