About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Bourne is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New York who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and ADHD. She meets individuals where they are and offers steady, practical support for everyday struggles. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aiming to create time and space for people to be heard without judgment.
Over 20 years in mental health work give her a wide view of common challenges.
Background and approach
She has experience in community, inpatient, outpatient, and hospital settings. That background helps her adapt to different needs and life stages. Elizabeth draws from several approaches rather than using a single method for everyone.
She uses tools from cognitive behavioral methods to address unhelpful thinking, and she brings mindfulness and acceptance strategies to help clients live with difficult feelings. She also uses trauma-focused work when past hurt is still getting in the way. In a session she focuses on practical steps you can try between meetings.
She talks through communication problems, parenting stress, relationship struggles, and work-related burnout in clear terms. She also supports people dealing with caregiving strain, medical illness, or major life transitions. Her goal is to work together on realistic, usable changes.
Sessions involve setting small goals, tracking what helps, and adjusting the plan as new needs arise. Elizabeth encourages clients to notice progress, even when it feels slow.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them, and then commit to actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and building small, practical changes in behavior that ease symptoms. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used for trauma work to help process distressing memories so they have less hold in daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as progress is seen. Clients and the therapist decide together what feels most useful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat is helpful for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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