Elizabeth Shields

Elizabeth Shields is a licensed mental health counselor who centers therapy on the relationship she builds with each person. She emphasizes a person-centered, strengths-based style and aims to create a space where clients can be honest about their feelings, thoughts, and life circumstances. Elizabeth invites people to explore the past, present, and plans for the future while they work toward clearer goals.

She uses Trauma-Focused Therapy alongside approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy to guide conversations. Sessions focus on practical steps, not labels, and she helps clients learn coping skills and build resilience. The work often involves noticing thoughts, practicing new behaviors, and strengthening emotional connections inside relationships.

Elizabeth has four years of professional experience and holds credentials as an LMHC and a LIMHP. She draws on her own experience as a parent of a child with multiple disabilities to inform an understanding of caregiver stress and related pressures. That personal perspective shapes how she supports people dealing with long-term caregiving demands.

Common concerns she addresses include anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship challenges, addiction, ADHD, and career strain. She also works with issues such as body image, attachment struggles, chronic illness, and codependency. The focus is on helping people develop healthier coping, clearer boundaries, and improved day-to-day functioning.

Elizabeth welcomes international clients and offers sessions from Nebraska. To begin, clients follow the site’s start process to match and schedule sessions based on availability.

How Elizabeth’s Approaches Work Online

Trauma-Focused Therapy helps people address the ways past hurts affect daily life. It focuses on processing difficult memories and reducing their hold on current thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and relationship strain.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, teaches practical skills for noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It is often useful for stress, depression, and getting unstuck when worry or avoidance gets in the way.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current connections. This work can help people change repeating patterns in close relationships and improve emotional safety with others.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She treats therapy as a conversation and adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Many people find online therapy easier to fit into busy lives because it can reduce travel time and make scheduling simpler. Confirm the specific session formats available before booking so you know how sessions will be conducted. Online work can support consistent check-ins, skills practice between meetings, and more flexible scheduling to help therapy fit everyday routines.