Elizabeth Koenig

Elizabeth Koenig is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who centers cognitive behavioral ideas in her work. She writes as Liz and aims to offer the kind of support she would have wanted during her own struggles. Her style is direct and practical, focused on how feelings, thoughts, and actions connect. Liz has worked across inpatient, crisis care, and outpatient community settings, and she brings that range of experience into sessions. She sometimes brings her black lab, Maggie, to the office to help ease anxiety during meetings. Her background gives her experience responding to sudden distress and ongoing challenges. In sessions she focuses on how thoughts shape emotions and behaviors, then works with people to try different ways of thinking and acting. That can mean practicing new responses, trying small behavior changes, and noticing what shifts. Her work often addresses depression, low self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, and LGBT-related concerns. She also helps people who are struggling with body image, caregiver stress, control issues, guilt and shame, questions about sexuality, and other life transitions. Liz describes her approach as collaborative and practical - she partners with people to set goals and test what helps. Liz is based in Colorado and offers therapy in English. She has three years of professional experience as an LPC and draws on both crisis and outpatient work to inform how she supports people through hard moments.

How cognitive behavioral work translates to online therapy

Elizabeth centers cognitive behavioral ideas, which focus on the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In practice this often means identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, testing new responses, and practicing small behavior changes to see what helps. This approach can be useful for depression, anxiety, self-esteem struggles, and many forms of stress.

She also draws on experience from crisis and inpatient settings to offer steady, practical support when things feel intense. That background helps in shaping short-term tools and safety-focused steps while also addressing longer-term goals like grief processing or body image work.

Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide whether to emphasize thought-focused work, behavioral experiments, or a mix of techniques and then adjust the plan as therapy progresses.

Session formats were not specified in the biography, so confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow quicker check-ins on challenging days. It also lets people continue work between appointments with homework and brief exercises that reinforce in-session changes.