About Elizabeth
Dr. Elizabeth Parr is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on everyday struggles like relationship stress, parenting challenges, career decisions, coping with life changes, and ADHD.
She aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone feeling stuck or overwhelmed. She builds sessions around listening first. Clients can expect a calm space to say what they need to say without judgment.
Background and approach
The therapist encourages clear, practical goals and steady progress rather than quick fixes. Dr. Parr uses methods that help people notice patterns in thinking and behavior, then try new ways of responding.
She blends client-centered conversations with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy when they fit the concern. This combination is aimed at improving day-to-day functioning and easing stress. In sessions she focuses on real-life problems like communication breakdowns, parenting strain, career crossroads, and the challenges that come with major life transitions.
She also addresses related issues such as abandonment, caregiver stress, codependency, impulsivity, and hoarding with practical steps and pacing that feels doable. Her approach is collaborative. She works with each person to set goals and choose strategies that match their needs and rhythm.
People looking for steady, straightforward support often find this style helpful.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes being heard and understood. In practice this means the therapist spends time listening, reflecting, and letting the person lead the story. It helps with relationship concerns, parenting stress, and coping with life changes by building trust and clarifying goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying small, practical changes in behavior. It is useful for managing impulsivity, symptoms related to ADHD, anxiety about choices, and everyday problem solving. Sessions include simple exercises and homework to practice between meetings.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful and try different techniques to match a client's needs, goals, and preferences. Decisions about methods are made together and can shift over time as progress is reviewed.
Online formats - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat can provide a shorter check-in, and messaging supports brief written reflections between meetings. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, parenting, or other responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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