Elizabeth Giele

Elizabeth Giele is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with decades of experience helping people face anger, grief, stress, and life transitions. She holds LCSW and LICSW credentials and brings a calm, listening approach to each conversation. Her style centers on respect for a person’s values and goals. Elizabeth aims to help people build practical skills and greater self-compassion.

Elizabeth works from a client-centered, strengths-based perspective. She listens without judgement and learns what matters most to each person. Her sessions often use mindfulness, narrative work, and acceptance-based ideas to help people notice patterns and make changes that match their values.

She also uses coaching techniques and insight-oriented discussion to support career questions, caregiving stress, and grief after loss. These practical tools can boost confidence and help people manage strong emotions like anger or anxiety. Elizabeth often helps people facing serious illness, end-of-life concerns, or the strain of caring for aging relatives.

Many people come for help with relationships, intimacy, or identity questions including LGBT concerns. Elizabeth helps sort through family-of-origin issues, communication problems, and codependency, too. She aims to make each session a place to try new ways of responding and to build better day-to-day coping.

Across 35 years of practice, Elizabeth has worked with a wide range of life challenges. Her background includes hospice and palliative social work experience and long-term counseling practice. She invites prospective clients to describe their situation and explore whether her approach fits their needs.

How Elizabeth’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Elizabeth often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) which focuses on identifying personal values and taking steps toward them even when emotions are difficult. ACT can help with anger, anxiety, and making life changes by teaching small, practical actions that match what matters to a person.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which means sessions begin with careful, nonjudgmental listening and follow the client’s pace. This approach helps people feel heard while they sort through relationship, identity, or grief concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean trying mindfulness exercises one week and a values-based action plan the next.

Confirm the current session options before booking, since specific formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins, or letting someone meet from a quieter place. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, coaching tasks, and grief work to an online setting to keep progress moving forward.