About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Haines is a licensed social worker in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, parenting challenges, and depression. She brings 29 years of experience to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Elizabeth speaks English and works with adults on a range of life and mood issues.
She uses a straightforward, person-focused style. Sessions aim to identify clear goals and small actions that make daily life easier.
How Elizabeth works
Elizabeth treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion while keeping conversations direct and focused on what matters to the client. Her approach includes client-centered work that listens to each person's priorities and builds on their strengths. She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Solution-focused techniques help set short-term goals and track progress between sessions. Elizabeth has worked across many settings over nearly three decades, giving her a broad sense of what helps in different situations. She supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, anger, low self-esteem, career questions, and ADHD concerns.
Additional areas include blended family issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, infidelity, isolation, jealousy, and women’s concerns. People who prefer clear goals and practical tools may find her style a good fit. She encourages collaboration so each plan matches the client's pace and values.
Starting therapy is framed as a step toward a more manageable and meaningful life.
Elizabeth lists 3 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
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 29 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approach-focused online therapy for practical change
Elizabeth combines client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies to support people online. Client-centered Therapy means conversations focus on the person's priorities and strengths, helping them find their own answers and set meaningful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors influence feelings and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is a team effort. Elizabeth will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process can include trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as progress is tracked.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video is useful for longer conversations and visual connection, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat lets people check in quickly, and messaging supports shorter updates between appointments. These options help people access licensed professionals with more scheduling flexibility and fewer travel barriers.
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