Works with
- Anger
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Elizabeth works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Years in practice
- 34
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Coutts is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with more than three decades of clinical experience. She focuses on common life struggles such as relationship difficulties, anger, depression, anxiety, and substance use. Elizabeth aims to meet each person with respect and a calm, steady approach.
Her style is straightforward and empathetic. Sessions are conversational and tailored to the person in front of her. She listens first, then helps people build practical strategies that fit daily life.
Background and approach
Parents or workers juggling stress, career shifts, grief, or chronic health burdens often find this down-to-earth method helpful. Elizabeth uses several evidence-informed approaches to shape treatment. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with workable alternatives.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports values-based action when life feels overwhelming. She also draws on attachment-focused ideas to understand close relationships and patterns that repeat over time.
Sessions can address issues like abandonment concerns, blended family strains, codependency, and coping after trauma. The aim is to create clearer choices and steadier moods rather than quick fixes. With a long career working across many concerns, Elizabeth personalizes each plan.
She encourages small steps that add up to real change. Starting therapy is a step, and she works with people ready to try a practical, compassionate path forward.
What Elizabeth works with
Everything Elizabeth lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Elizabeth's practice.
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Elizabeth lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed steps toward what matters, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for mood and anxiety concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationship patterns affect current relationships and coping; it can help people improve how they relate to others and manage abandonment or trust issues.Choosing the right approach is part of treatment. The therapist works collaboratively to match methods to the person's goals and preferences. That means trying strategies together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed rather than using a one-size-fits-all model.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full face-to-face conversation and skill work, phone sessions can fit into a busy day or when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people share notes or quick progress updates. These options make it easier to fit therapy into family, work, and health schedules while keeping a steady course of treatment.
Questions people ask about Elizabeth
What kinds of problems does Elizabeth help with?
She works with relationship problems, grief, low self-esteem, depression, anxiety, addictions, parenting strain, anger, career concerns, bipolar challenges, and related issues.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is conversational and practical with an emphasis on listening first. She tailors sessions to the person's needs and helps build usable strategies for daily life.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 34 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns and life changes.
What credential does she hold and where does she practice?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor - LPC - practicing in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what works best for the person.
How are fees and getting started handled?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.