About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Toporas is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Indiana with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are struggling with relationship strain, grief, anxiety, depression, and trauma-related concerns.
Background and approach
Her manner is warm and interactive, and she brings a calm, practical presence to sessions. She works with individuals and couples around parenting stress, blended family challenges, adoption and foster care issues, and workplace strain.
Her practice also addresses intimate partner violence survivors, first responder stress, and complications from past family-of-origin dynamics. Elizabeth focuses on how these issues affect daily life and close relationships.
Her approach blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavior strategies and emotionally-focused methods. She pays attention to the brain-body connection after trauma and adapts conversations and goals to each person’s timeline.
Sessions often include problem-solving, skill practice, and reflection on patterns that keep problems stuck. Elizabeth earned a Master of Science in Education from Indiana University and holds an Indiana Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential.
Over two decades she has gained experience supporting people through panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, guilt and shame, and intimacy concerns. She invites people who want validation for change and practical steps forward.
If someone is ready to address relationship wounds, grief, or persistent anxiety, she offers steady guidance and collaborative planning to reach clearer daily functioning.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people clarify their values and take small steps toward a meaningful life while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can be helpful for anxiety, depression, grief, and situations where avoidance keeps problems alive. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathetic listening and collaboration so the person feels heard and can explore change at their own pace. This approach supports building confidence and clearer decision-making in relationships and parenting.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan based on progress and feedback, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and deeper emotional work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text are good for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or a shorter touch point between longer sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Stress, Anxiety
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English