About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Doherty offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety or life changes. She writes in a straightforward way and helps clients talk through what matters most. Elizabeth aims to make the first step easier and acknowledges how hard it can feel to reach out.
She uses a conversational, client-centred style that lets people lead the pace and focus of sessions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, is one tool she draws on to spot patterns of thinking and try small experiments that can change day-to-day mood.
How Elizabeth works
Mindfulness techniques are introduced to help with sleep, worry and grounding when emotions run high. Elizabeth has 15 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and holds BACP registration. That background includes work with stress, anxiety, depression and trauma, as well as issues around self-esteem, career choices and coping with major life transitions.
She also supports people dealing with grief, intimacy concerns and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to how relationships and attachment affect everyday life, and will help people untangle communication problems, codependency or commitment worries. Autism, ADHD and intellectual disability are listed among areas she has worked with, alongside challenges such as loneliness and life purpose questions.
Sessions are carried out in plain language and focus on practical steps the client can try between meetings. Elizabeth combines empathy with clear, manageable goals so progress feels real and relevant.
Elizabeth lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
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.
Also listed
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use online and how they help
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on the client's experience and priorities, so sessions follow what matters most to the individual rather than a strict agenda. This approach helps when someone needs a listening space to sort out feelings and goals.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and encourages small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. It can be useful for anxiety, low mood, sleeping problems and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work itself. Elizabeth will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try. That choice is collaborative and can change as therapy progresses.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people see facial cues and work through exercises together, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a short break at work, and live chat or text-based messaging can be used for check-ins or when writing is easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep continuity when life is busy or when travelling is difficult, while still focusing on the therapeutic goals you set with your counsellor.
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