About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Toussaint is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing relationship strain, identity questions, trauma, and life transitions. She aims to create a respectful space where clients feel heard and understood.
Elizabeth emphasizes the client’s strengths and choices as the starting point for change. Her approach blends attachment-focused work with client-centered listening. She uses mindfulness to help people manage strong emotions and motivational interviewing to support changes people want to make.
How Elizabeth works
Psychodynamic ideas inform how past relationships and family patterns affect current behavior. Elizabeth has worked in Illinois across clinical and coaching roles. That experience shaped a practical style that combines real-world problem solving with deeper exploration.
Sessions look at patterns in relationships, communication habits, and what matters most to each person. She supports people dealing with grief, addictions, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, anger, and self-esteem struggles. Elizabeth also helps with parenting challenges, blended family questions, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and coping after separation or loss.
People can expect a collaborative process that balances short-term goals and longer-term insight. Elizabeth encourages small, achievable steps alongside reflection on the bigger picture. She works with each person to find approaches that fit their life and goals.
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.
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Elizabeth integrates attachment-based work and client-centered therapy to help people understand patterns in relationships and feel genuinely heard. Attachment-based work looks at how early bonds influence current connections, which can be useful for intimacy and relationship struggles. Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience, using empathy and reflection to help them find their own solutions.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to help people manage intense emotions and stay present when stress rises. Mindfulness practices are short, practical skills that can reduce reactivity and improve focus during difficult moments.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and past experiences to determine which methods to emphasize. Clients and the therapist can adjust direction over time to match changing needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent across life’s demands.
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