About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Shields uses a person-centered approach that keeps the client's goals and values at the center of every session. She holds a steady focus on building trust and a working relationship. Elizabeth is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, and a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner, LIMHP.
She works from Nebraska and communicates in English. Elizabeth frames therapy as an ongoing conversation rather than a one-time fix. She invites people to talk about the past, present, or future and to notice their own thought patterns.
How Elizabeth works
Sessions aim to help people stay connected to their values while learning practical skills for daily life. Her work draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help with anxiety, depression, and stress. She also uses Attachment-Based and Emotionally-Focused ideas when relationships and connection are central concerns.
These approaches are used to address issues like intimacy, communication problems, grief, and caregiver stress. Elizabeth has four years of clinical experience. She is especially interested in supporting people facing life transitions, compassion fatigue, addiction concerns, and body image or identity matters.
She also helps with focus and attention struggles linked to ADHD and related conditions. Her practice includes help for career stress, anger, sleeping difficulties, and navigating blended family or relationship challenges. Elizabeth emphasizes practical coping skills, resilience, and strengths so people can manage everyday demands more easily.
Elizabeth lists 11 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
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LIMHP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Nebraska |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Elizabeth often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. CBT includes practical exercises and skill building that translate well to video or phone sessions.She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to tolerate difficult feelings. ACT can help with stress, life changes, and persistent worry by teaching simple everyday practices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and life circumstances. Sessions may shift over time as needs change, and choices are made together based on what helps most.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video calls let people work through relationship or attachment concerns more directly, while phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, and follow-up between sessions. These formats provide flexibility to fit therapy into busy schedules.
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