I am a licensed clinical social worker serving adult individuals across Texas via teletherapy from the Greater Houston area, with 7 years of client-facing clinical experience as a social worker. I enjoy several different things about therapy -- is one or more of these you?: the mentoring aspects of therapy with young adults, the empowerment and validation aspects of working with those with less privilege or the perspective-taking and compassion work of working with those with more privilege, using evidence-based therapies to help people overcome PTSD trauma, such as sleep better, concentrate more, feel safe more, take back their lives, and recover the experience of positive emotions, and helping young professionals regarding burnout.

What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?

My first session typically introduces therapy, orients the client, and establishes the foundation and basic expectations of our professional therapeutic relationship, and then the latter half of the first session is really an opportunity for the client to say what brings them to therapy now. After the first session, typically I provide a structured 2-5 session comprehensive bio-psycho-social assessment, the purpose of which is to panoramically understand what is going on in the client's life, and identify and prioritize therapy goals that will be the basis of the interventions to come.

Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.

Among by colleagues and therapy peers, I am known to always be keenly interested in studying evidence-based practices and interventions, completing continuing education at four times the pace of what's required of licensed clinical social workers. With my clients, I am known to be diligent in identifying and using evidence-based practices to help my clients resolve their issues as well as discover their own solutions. Also, the way my mind works might be described as philosophical; I often help clients to see things from a new perspective. I balance my own inputs into therapy with a high valuation of client right to self-determination and self-direction.

About Elizabeth Reed