About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Huntoon is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with four decades of clinical experience. She approaches therapy with warmth and direct attention to what each person needs. Her style is practical and grounded, aimed at helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, and mood concerns.
Elizabeth is based in Massachusetts and provides services in English. She draws on client-centered methods to build a trusting working relationship. That means she listens closely and adapts interventions to each person's goals.
How Elizabeth works
She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Mindfulness techniques are woven into sessions to reduce overwhelm and support better sleep and focus. Emotionally-Focused Therapy informs her work around intimacy and relationship concerns.
That approach helps people identify feelings and repair patterns that interfere with closeness. Elizabeth also brings elements of Jungian therapy when exploring life meaning, identity, and deeper emotional patterns. Her practice covers a wide range of issues beyond mood and anxiety, including grief, trauma and abuse, sexual and intimacy-related concerns, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
She has experience supporting people through caregiving stress, aging and end-of-life questions, fertility and adoption-related challenges, immigration and cultural adjustment, and multicultural concerns. Sessions may include practical coping strategies, thought work, and emotion-focused exercises. Elizabeth aims to help people cope with life changes, improve communication, and move toward greater well-being.
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LICSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 40 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Elizabeth uses Client-Centered Therapy to build an accepting, focused relationship where goals come from what matters most to the person. This approach centers on listening, reflecting, and shaping the work around individual needs and preferences.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and coping with life changes because it breaks big problems into small, manageable steps.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) is another lens she brings to work on intimacy and relationship patterns. EFT helps people name their feelings, see how patterns keep repeating, and try new ways of connecting and responding.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Sessions often mix approaches and adjust over time as progress and priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let people send quick updates, reflect between sessions, or fit brief check-ins into a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into everyday life.
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