About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Duffy welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief or major life changes. She explains things simply and offers a calm presence while people sort through difficult feelings. Her style suits someone who wants straightforward support and clear next steps.
She has 17 years of experience and is listed with NCPS. Elizabeth focuses on helping people manage addictions, trauma and abuse, anger and low mood. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, work stress, burnout and issues around identity and sexuality.
How Elizabeth works
Elizabeth uses a blend of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on client-centred ways of working to build a trusting relationship and uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help change unhelpful thinking and habits. Mindfulness techniques and emotionally-focused work are included when they fit the goals of the person in therapy.
Sessions typically involve talking through current struggles, learning simple tools to cope day to day, and setting small, practical goals between meetings. She will also use motivational interviewing to help people clarify what they want to change and stay on track. People seeking support can expect a down-to-earth pace and clear explanations.
Elizabeth aims to make each session useful and manageable, so that progress feels realistic and steady over time.
Elizabeth lists 8 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
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Elizabeth often uses client-centred work which means the conversation follows what matters most to the person. This creates a supportive space where the person’s own goals guide the sessions and the counsellor reflects back what is said to deepen understanding.She also uses cognitive behavioural therapy or CBT to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. CBT is practical and problem-focused, and can help with anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and many everyday difficulties.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss different options with each person and agree a plan that fits their needs, goals and preferences. Techniques may be adjusted over time as goals change.
Online therapy offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging so people can choose what works for them. Video is useful for a fuller conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, brief live chat or messaging can suit quick check-ins and text allows a written record of ideas and exercises. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family life and other commitments.
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