About Liz
Liz Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with ten years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, and relationship concerns. She offers straightforward, nonjudgmental support and listens closely to each person's needs. Sessions focus on what matters most to the client and on practical steps forward.
She combines a client-centered way of working with practical skills from cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior approaches. That means clients get time to talk and be heard, plus tools to change thinking patterns and handle intense emotions.
Background and approach
She also uses EMDR when trauma memories are a central concern and mindfulness techniques to build awareness and calm. Liz trained in both counseling and clinical psychology and holds licenses as an LMHC and as an LCPC. She has a strong background in substance use and trauma-related work and has supported many people navigating depression, bipolar symptoms, grief, and major life transitions.
Her style is direct but warm, aiming to make therapy a manageable part of everyday life. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish, and she sees clients who prefer video, phone, chat, or text-based messaging. Liz helps people clarify goals, learn coping strategies, and practice new behaviors between meetings.
She encourages small steps and checks in on progress over time. People seeking help with eating and sleeping problems, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, or compassion fatigue will find focused, practical support. She also addresses attachment, abandonment, body image, chronic illness, codependency, communication problems, and related issues using tailored techniques.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Liz blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR in online sessions. Client-centered therapy means conversations focus on the person's priorities, with the therapist offering empathy and support while the client leads the pace and direction. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and eating issues. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) targets distressing trauma memories with structured processing to reduce their intensity and the negative beliefs that surround them.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then suggest methods to try and adjust the plan as work progresses. Clients are invited to give feedback and to shape sessions so the approach stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video helps keep face-to-face interaction when preferred, phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging is useful for brief check-ins or when a shorter, on-the-go option fits a schedule. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or medical routines while maintaining regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Montana, Utah, Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish