About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Brennan is a Licensed Master Social Worker who brings eight years of professional practice to her work. She offers steady, compassionate support for people facing depression, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. Elizabeth keeps things straightforward and practical in sessions so clients can make real changes.
She began studying social work and fine art after leaving San Diego and completed her master’s degree in 2017. Her background includes public mental health roles in direct care, assessment, diagnosis, case management, and individual therapy.
Background and approach
She has also volunteered with community arts projects and values creativity in healing. Elizabeth uses a mix of hands-on and talk-based ways to help people feel better in their bodies and minds. She draws on somatic approaches to notice how stress shows up physically.
She pairs that with client-centered care to follow each person’s priorities and with cognitive-behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and habits. Common concerns she addresses include trauma and abuse, grief, relationship difficulties, addiction, body image, chronic pain, and neurodiversity-related challenges. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, career stress, and compassion fatigue.
She aims to make therapy a calm, steady place to sort feelings and try new coping skills. Outside of clinical work she makes pottery and watercolor paintings, gardens, ferments kombucha and kimchi, and cares for succulents. Those creative interests sometimes show up in sessions when clients want to explore alternative ways to express and process emotions.
Approach and access: working somatically and practically online
Elizabeth blends somatic work, client-centered care, and cognitive-behavioral techniques in online sessions. Somatic approaches focus on noticing bodily sensations and patterns of tension or activation, which can help with trauma, stress, and chronic pain. Client-centered therapy prioritizes the person’s goals and pace, creating space to be heard and understood. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Elizabeth will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together the therapist and client decide whether to emphasize body-based awareness, skills practice, or reflective conversation as sessions progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided somatic exercises. Phone sessions remove the need for video while keeping real-time contact. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use brief coaching-style support. These formats are intended to make therapy fit into daily life while maintaining continuity of care.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- 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
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English