Elizabeth Giele , LCSW, LICSW

Elizabeth Giele is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 35 years of practice. She brings a listening, person-centered approach and simple tools to help people facing stress, grief, changes in work or health, and questions about relationships or sexuality.

She centers sessions on what matters to each person. She listens without judgment and asks about values, goals, and the small steps that make life better. Her style combines mindfulness, life coaching ideas, and narrative work to help people name what they want and move toward it.

Elizabeth has long experience helping people cope with serious illness, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and caregiving strain. She also supports those navigating loss, career transitions, loneliness, or anger and self-esteem struggles. Her background includes many years working with issues common to LGBT people and those facing chronic medical challenges.

In sessions she uses practical exercises and steady conversation. That might include mindful practices, exercises to clarify personal stories, or coaching-style planning to try different behaviors between meetings. The steps are designed to build resilience and clearer decision-making over time.

Elizabeth works with adults who want a thoughtful, empathic clinician to help them through life changes. She draws on decades of experience while keeping language plain and actions doable. People who prefer a thoughtful, values-focused approach often find her style helpful.

Online care with values-based and mindfulness approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying what you value and taking small committed actions toward those values while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by clarifying priorities and guiding behavioral steps. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and collaboration so clients feel heard and can draw on their own strengths to solve problems. This approach helps when someone needs a calm, nonjudgmental space to sort out feelings and make choices.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan over time in a collaborative way.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which allow flexibility for different situations. Video calls work well for full conversations and exercises that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter, convenient ways to check progress, ask questions, or get brief coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between meetings.