Elizabeth Giele, LCSW, LICSW
Experienced LCSW blending mindfulness and values-based work
Book with ElizabethWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
How Elizabeth works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW, LICSW
- Licensed in
- New Mexico, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine
- Years in practice
- 35
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Giele is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 35 years of experience. She draws on client-centered and mindfulness-based ways of working to help people manage stress, anger, grief, and life transitions. Her approach is calm and practical, aimed at helping people feel steadier and more confident in daily life.
She listens without judgment and focuses on each person’s values and goals. Sessions combine compassionate listening with practical tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, narrative methods, and mindfulness practice.
Background and approach
The aim is to build coping skills, increase self-compassion, and clarify what matters most to the individual. Elizabeth has long experience supporting people through major losses and health challenges. That includes coping with serious illness, caregiving strain, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and the grief that follows bereavement.
She also helps people facing career upheaval, midlife questions, or the ongoing drain of compassion fatigue. She works with issues many people bring to therapy: anxiety, depression, sleep problems, intimacy concerns, and relationship or family origin patterns. Her style balances listening with skill teaching so people leave sessions with concrete steps to try between meetings.
Sessions are offered from New Mexico and conducted in English. Elizabeth’s background includes long-term clinical work and coaching aimed at personal development, life purpose, and resilience. She helps people apply therapeutic ideas to everyday challenges so changes feel achievable and grounded.
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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Elizabeth lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
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 available online
Elizabeth integrates Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy into online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying personal values and taking guided steps toward them, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It can help with anxiety, anger, and motivation to make life changes. Client-Centered Therapy centers on respectful listening and collaboration, giving people space to tell their story and discover their own solutions.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will ask about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they try methods and adjust the focus so the work fits the person’s daily life and priorities.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat or messaging works for brief reflections, progress notes, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or mobility challenges and to use therapeutic tools in real time.
Questions people ask about Elizabeth
What concerns does she help with?
She supports people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, anger, sleep problems, relationship and intimacy issues, career changes, and caregiver strain.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her work is person-centered and strengths-based, combining listening with practical skills from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness, and narrative approaches.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She brings 35 years of clinical experience, including long-term counseling and life coaching with people facing loss, illness, and major life changes.
What are her professional credentials and where is she based?
She holds ME LCSW and MA LICSW credentials and practices from New Mexico.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
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 may be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits the person best.
How are costs and the subscription handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.