Elizabeth Malchow , LCSW

Elizabeth Malchow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Wisconsin with seven years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life changes. Liz centers her work on respect, kindness, and practical tools that fit each person’s life.

She uses approaches rooted in attachment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotionally-focused work to address difficult patterns. Sessions often include simple exercises to build awareness and everyday skills for coping with strong emotions and relationship strain. Activities may be creative or reflective to help people notice long-standing habits and make different choices.

Clients can expect a collaborative process where goals are set together and adjusted as things change. She pays attention to how past relationship experiences shape current reactions and communication. That focus helps with concerns like attachment wounds, commitment issues, and codependency.

Liz also supports people dealing with parenting strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and complicated grief. She brings practical strategies from cognitive-behavioral work and skills from dialectical behavior therapy to help manage symptoms day to day. The work is paced to match each person’s readiness for change.

Therapy is tailored to the individual rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Elizabeth aims to help people build clearer self-understanding, steadier emotion management, and more satisfying relationships over time.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and closeness. It helps people understand attachment patterns that affect trust, communication, and emotional safety in relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It helps with anxiety, depression, and daily coping strategies by breaking big problems into manageable steps. Emotionally-Focused Therapy centers on emotions in relationships and helps people name feelings and respond to them in new ways. It is often useful for improving connection and communication in close relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they will try methods and adjust based on what helps most, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.

Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, skill practice, or shorter reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent with a busy schedule.