Elizabeth Williams, LPC
Compassionate somatic-informed counseling for daily life
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Williams is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, sleep troubles, and low mood. She focuses on practical steps clients can use day to day. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative, with attention to both body and mind through somatic-informed work.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and make small behaviour changes. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used to teach emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Background and approach
Mindfulness and existential ideas help people connect to values and find meaning when life feels overwhelming. Elizabeth pays attention to how emotions show up in the body and uses somatic techniques so clients can learn to feel safer in their own skin. Sessions often mix talk with simple grounding and breathing practices to reduce immediate anxiety and improve sleep over time.
She also supports people dealing with relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, career questions, grief, and questions about sexuality. Additional focus areas include mood disorders, panic, personality disorders, seasonal affective disorder, and care for those experiencing compassion fatigue. Elizabeth has five years of clinical experience and holds WV LPC 2804 in West Virginia.
Sessions are offered in English and arranged to fit each person’s schedule. Her style is warm, direct, and centered on small, achievable steps clients can try between sessions.
How somatic work and skills-based therapy translate online
Elizabeth uses somatic-informed methods to help people notice how emotions show up in the body and practice simple grounding or breath techniques. This helps with symptoms like anxiety, panic, and sleep disruption by teaching in-session body awareness that can be used at home.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach distress tolerance and emotion regulation skills. These approaches focus on concrete skills you can try between sessions and are well suited to an online setting.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful. Clients are invited to share preferences so sessions match their needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, practice skills in real time, and check in between appointments. The variety of formats supports different comfort levels and learning styles.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Sleeping disorders
- Depression
Also works with
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English