Elizabeth Aulds, LMHC

Elizabeth Aulds is a Florida Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 14 years of experience working with adults. She focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, coping with life changes, and relationship concerns. Elizabeth emphasizes clients' strengths and respects each person's perspective as central to therapy.

She works in a straightforward, client-centered manner. Sessions often begin with listening to the current problem and identifying what the client wants to change. Practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and skills from dialectical behavior therapy are offered when useful. Mindfulness and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques are used to help people relate differently to difficult thoughts and feelings.

Elizabeth has additional experience with blended family issues, caregiver stress, communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, and family of origin issues. She also addresses concerns such as guilt and shame, forgiveness, emptiness, and questions about life purpose and midlife change. Her background supports work with mood disorders and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder when that is part of a client's history.

In sessions she helps people name patterns that started in childhood and see how those patterns show up now. She encourages small, practical steps toward clearer communication and more manageable day-to-day coping. Progress is paced to each person's goals and circumstances.

Elizabeth sees therapy as a collaborative process. She helps clients pick techniques that fit their situation and adjusts the work as needs change.

How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions