About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Baxt helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, and low self-esteem. She also supports concerns around career changes, intimacy, LGBT issues, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Elizabeth is a licensed marriage and family therapist with forty years of clinical experience and a practical focus on everyday problems. She prefers a straightforward approach.
Sessions focus on clear thinking, better decision making, and practical skills to reduce drama and tension. Conversations are designed to leave people with at least one useful idea or step to try between meetings.
Elizabeth adapts each session to the person in front of her. She uses client-centered methods, art, and guided imagery alongside talk-based work.
Those tools are combined based on what fits the person and the issue at hand. Appointments are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging for people located in Oregon.
Elizabeth explains options and helps clients pick formats that suit their schedules and needs. She frames therapy as a collaborative process where the client’s goals guide the work.
Her aim is to help people feel more capable and get clearer about the life they want. Sessions are practical, respectful, and focused on building skills that carry over into daily life.
Client-centered approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy centers the person’s own goals and experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people identify their priorities. This approach can be useful for stress, anxiety, self-esteem, relationship concerns, and coping with life changes.Elizabeth also integrates art and guided imagery when it fits the client's needs. Art can help express things that are hard to say in words, and guided imagery can support relaxation and new ways of thinking about problems. These tools are chosen collaboratively based on what the person prefers and finds helpful.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. That makes the process collaborative and goal-focused.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling easier around work and family life. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be simpler when less bandwidth is needed, and messaging or live chat can work for brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue progress even when life is changing.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- California, Oregon
- Languages
- English