About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Elliott-Staggs brings three decades of clinical experience to her work. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with practice ties to California and Texas.
Background and approach
Elizabeth helps people facing addictions, relationship strain, trauma, grief, mood struggles, and life transitions. Her approach is straightforward and warm.
She aims to create a space where clients can speak honestly without feeling judged. Sessions focus on identifying practical steps and building coping skills that fit each person's life.
Elizabeth has worked across many concerns including anxiety, depression, postpartum mood challenges, eating issues, and obsessive or compulsive behavior. She also supports people dealing with infidelity, divorce and separation, forgiveness work, and questions about life purpose.
She pays attention to cultural and multicultural concerns and to LGBT experiences. Her background includes long-term work with trauma and post-traumatic stress and with people managing seasonal mood shifts such as SAD.
Elizabeth guides clients toward clearer thinking and actionable change. She encourages small, steady steps that lead to lasting differences.
The initial sessions focus on goals, immediate coping, and a plan for moving forward.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Access
Elizabeth uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical coping and recovery. One approach emphasizes step-by-step coping skills to manage anxiety, depression, and stress; it teaches concrete tools for calming the body and organizing thoughts. Another approach centers on trauma-informed care, helping people process difficult memories and reduce their impact on daily life through paced, stabilizing work.Choosing the right approach happens together. Elizabeth assesses goals, preferences, and challenges and then tailors techniques that fit the person's needs. She treats therapy as a collaboration and adjusts methods as progress and comfort develop.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone meetings can be a lighter option when video is not practical. Live chat and messaging let clients check in between sessions or have shorter interactions when schedules are tight. These formats make it easier to keep consistent care while balancing work, family, and travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas
- Languages
- English