About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Shartle is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and the strain of major life changes. Her work often focuses on practical skills for managing emotions and moving forward.
Elizabeth uses straightforward, collaborative methods to help people build better communication and coping strategies. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, client-centered work, and cognitive behavioral tools to address symptoms and patterns that get in the way of daily life.
How Elizabeth works
Sessions aim to be calm, focused, and action-oriented. She has particular experience helping people cope with grief, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, and the challenges of parenting and caregiving. Elizabeth also supports clients dealing with relationship problems, career stress, and mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.
She pays attention to family-of-origin issues, commitment and attachment concerns, and problems tied to substance use. Elizabeth favors short, practical steps alongside deeper reflection. That might look like learning new ways to talk about needs, practicing skills to reduce worry, or trying small behavioral changes between sessions.
She encourages people to set doable goals and to notice progress along the way. Elizabeth practices in Ohio and speaks English. Her background is built on years of client work using a mix of solution-focused strategies and more exploratory approaches to meaning and values.
She aims to meet each person where they are and support steady, manageable change.
Elizabeth lists 5 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
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while handling painful thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and the stress of life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and trying new behaviors to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and coping with stressful situations.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will collaborate with each person to determine which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying solution-focused exercises for quick behavioral changes, using ACT ideas to refocus on values, or combining approaches over time as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skill practice and deeper dialogue. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a short check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, tracking progress, or checking in between longer sessions. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, family, or caregiving schedules while supporting steady therapeutic work.
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