Elizabeth McKinley , LPC

Elizabeth McKinley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 27 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people navigate depression, trauma, parenting stress, and relationship difficulties with steady, practical support. Her style is warm and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people feel understood and less overwhelmed.

She uses client-centered methods to build a collaborative relationship where each person’s goals guide the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes that can make daily life easier. Mindfulness practices are added when people want tools to manage stress and stay present.

Elizabeth has worked with a wide range of concerns including grief, bipolar mood challenges, compassion fatigue, and complex family of origin issues. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and the stresses caregivers face. Her long experience gives her a broad view of how these problems can interact over time.

In sessions she helps people break big problems into manageable steps. Conversations focus on concrete skills, values, and choices that match the client’s life. She aims to help clients find clearer direction and stronger coping skills.

People who prefer a calm, thoughtful therapist will find her approach practical and steady. She encourages curiosity about feelings and small experiments that can change patterns over weeks and months.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Elizabeth blends client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to create straightforward online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening carefully and shaping goals around what matters most to the client. CBT looks at current thoughts and behaviors and uses small experiments to reduce distress and build skills.

She also integrates mindfulness practices to teach simple attention and breathing exercises that reduce stress between sessions. These approaches can help with depression, anxiety, trauma symptoms, grief, and parenting stress by giving practical tools and clearer ways to act in daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. She works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person’s goals and comfort level, adjusting techniques as needed. Clients and therapist review progress together and choose what to emphasize in future sessions.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from visual cues. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to fit short updates or brief coaching into a busy day. These options are intended to add flexibility and make it easier to keep therapy consistent.