- Years in practice
- 27
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Family conflicts
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Bipolar disorder
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth McKinley is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Colorado with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people handle depression, trauma, stress, and relationship concerns. Parents looking for practical support around parenting and family strain will find straightforward guidance and calm listening.
Elizabeth uses clear, down-to-earth language and aims to make sessions feel manageable. She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person's lead and build trust. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try simple, doable behavior changes.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices are woven in to help with stress, anxiety, and staying present during tough moments. Her work often centers on life transitions such as grief, divorce, adoption and foster care matters, and caregiver stress. She also supports people facing bipolar mood shifts, trauma and abuse recovery, and exhaustion from compassion fatigue.
Elizabeth helps clients name problems and pick small steps that fit their daily lives. Sessions aim to strengthen self-esteem, clarify values, and rebuild routine when things feel out of control. The Gottman Method informs her approach to relationship skills and communication.
Existential ideas are used when people struggle with meaning, purpose, or big life questions. Elizabeth combines practical tools with attentive listening. She helps people try new behaviors, notice what changes, and adjust plans over time.
Her style is steady, patient, and focused on real-world results that matter to daily life.
What Elizabeth works with
Everything Elizabeth lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Elizabeth helps people with.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Elizabeth lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Elizabeth often blends client-centered work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people who feel stuck. Client-centered therapy means the therapist follows the person's concerns and priorities, offering empathy and reflection so clients can explore what matters most. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood.Mindfulness techniques are added to help with stress and grounding during emotional moments. These practices teach simple breathing, attention exercises, and short reflections that can be used between sessions to lower reactivity and increase focus. Together these approaches aim to support parenting challenges, grief, trauma recovery, and daily stress in a practical way.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their style, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative process makes it easier to find tools that work in real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, chat works for quick check-ins, and messaging suits ongoing short reflections. These options make therapy easier to fit around parenting, work, and busy schedules.
Questions people ask about Elizabeth
What concerns does Elizabeth commonly address?
She works with depression, anxiety, trauma and relationship difficulties. Parenting, grief, and caregiver stress are also listed focus areas.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is client-centered and practical. She listens first, then helps people try small, concrete steps to feel better.
How much experience does she have?
Elizabeth has 27 years of clinical experience as a licensed professional counselor. That background includes work with mood disorders and trauma recovery.
Where is she licensed and located?
She holds a Colorado LPC credential and practices with that licensure in Colorado.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English only.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How do fees and subscriptions work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and is provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
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