About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Stivers is a licensed clinical social worker with 16 years of experience based in Maine. She brings a practical, down-to-earth approach when people come with worry, stress, grief, or big life changes. Elizabeth explains things simply and helps people find steady ways forward.
Before practicing in Maine she completed a master’s degree in social work at The University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree in psychology at The University of Texas at Austin.
How Elizabeth works
She has worked in many settings including hospitals, outpatient clinics, community centers, residential placements, and independent practice. That range shaped how she sees problems and what helps. Elizabeth focuses on common struggles such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and parenting stresses.
She also helps with adoption and foster care transitions, blended family issues, autism and Asperger Syndrome concerns, caregiver strain, and communication or commitment problems. Her sessions emphasize clear communication skills and practical steps people can use between meetings.
She draws on client-centered methods to make space for each person, cognitive behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and habits, and emotionally focused ideas to improve how people connect with others. People working with Elizabeth can expect collaborative conversations that name patterns and focus on small, doable changes.
She supports exploration of values and meaning when people face life transitions or feel stuck. Therapy typically includes goal-setting, real-time practice, and follow-up steps to build momentum.
Elizabeth lists 6 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
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Maine |
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Online support options
How Elizabeth's approaches work online
Elizabeth uses client-centered work to make room for each person's voice and priorities; this approach focuses on listening, reflecting, and helping people identify their own goals and next steps. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful patterns. A third approach she integrates is emotionally focused work that helps people notice and reshape how they respond in important relationships and stressful interactions.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Elizabeth treats the choice as collaborative and will help identify which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying different techniques and adjusting what happens in sessions until it feels useful and manageable.
Online formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, school, caregiving, or health demands. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and live chat or text-based messaging can provide quick support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.
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