About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Giele is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 35 years of experience. She brings a patient, listening-first approach and uses straightforward methods to help people facing stress, grief, career shifts, and health-related challenges. She centers sessions on what matters most to each person.
Elizabeth listens without judgment and learns about a client’s values, strengths, and hopes. From there she offers coaching-style guidance, mindfulness practices, and therapeutic conversations to build confidence and coping skills.
How Elizabeth works
Her background includes long experience with serious illness, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and caregiver stress. She also focuses on relationship questions, sexual identity concerns, career transitions, and coping with major life changes. Elizabeth draws on practical techniques to help manage anxiety, depression, sleep problems, anger, and attention challenges.
In sessions she combines client-centered listening with narrative work and acceptance-based practices. That mix helps people make sense of hard experiences, reconnect with what matters, and take small steps toward change. She also uses mindfulness to reduce reactivity and strengthen present-moment awareness.
Elizabeth has worked with people across the United States and brings a calm, experienced presence to each meeting. She invites clients to explore values, clarify goals, and develop day-to-day strategies for relief and growth. Her aim is to help people feel more capable, compassionate toward themselves, and clearer about their next steps.
Elizabeth lists 9 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LCSW, LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and to act in ways that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, life transitions, and when someone wants clearer direction. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship so people can explore feelings and find their own solutions. It supports coping with grief, career questions, relationship issues, and caregiver stress.Choosing an approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust based on what feels most helpful. Clients and the therapist work together to pick practical tools and shape sessions around each person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or use less bandwidth. Chat and messaging are practical for shorter check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or when writing things out helps. These options make it easier to schedule sessions and maintain continuity during life changes.
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A practical next step
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