About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Shields is a licensed mental health counselor and licensed independent mental health practitioner who focuses on building a strong therapeutic relationship first. She centers sessions on listening and understanding each person’s goals and values. Her style aims to make people feel understood and able to talk honestly about their concerns.
She uses person-centered work combined with structured tools when helpful. That means clients set goals and the sessions adapt to what matters most to them.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral tools to notice patterns of thinking and on acceptance-based ideas to help people live in line with their values. Elizabeth often supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and mood concerns. She also helps with ADHD-related challenges, grief, career questions, and relationship issues.
She pays attention to how life transitions and caregiving strain affect daily functioning and self-worth. She describes therapy as an ongoing conversation and a supportive relationship. Sessions explore past and present experiences while working toward practical coping skills.
She encourages building resilience and adapting healthy daily routines that fit each person’s life. Elizabeth brings four years of clinical experience and a holistic outlook to her work. She is based in Nebraska and meets people from diverse backgrounds.
Her aim is to reduce stigma around mental health and to support clients as they develop realistic, meaningful change.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Elizabeth often blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy to help people make meaningful changes. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them while guiding action toward personal values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and living with ADHD-related distractions. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and building a trusting relationship so people can explore goals and feel heard before moving to specific skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That conversation can change over time as progress and priorities evolve.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different situations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper discussion, phone sessions can be used when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and live chat or texting fit quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska, Iowa
- Languages
- English
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