trying to find a therapist you feel understood by & comfortable with?

Nice to Meet you!

I’m Elizabeth,

a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), and I provide individual therapy services to adults in Minnesota via online, virtual appointments.

I started ENA Counseling to provide a warm, welcoming, and personalized space to help people feel heard and understood, learn more about themselves and mental health, heal emotional wounds, and create a more authentic, balanced path in life.

I run a solo practice, which means that I am the only provider, administrator, and person you will contact and connect with- I feel very honored to be able to help people with challenges they face and take your trust and privacy very seriously; therapy, like any relationship, requires a foundation of safety, empathy, active listening, and open mindedness.

There are so many difficulties in life, and there are many things we cannot control. We are not born with an instruction manual telling us how to handle life experiences for our specific personality, values, past, beliefs, and identity. It can be so automatic to think that something is wrong with us, trap things inside, and go it alone, not trusting others to handle us with kindness and care.

I became a therapist, because I know how painful it is to feel alone, misunderstood, and have difficulty trusting others with very critical, raw emotions and thoughts. I believe therapy works when you have a space filled with kindness, open-mindedness, and empathy; a place that you feel accepted, understood, and taken seriously. I do my absolute best to provide that healing space for every client.

You also know you best, even if it doesn’t feel like that right now. My approach as a therapist is to work together with you to heal, learn, and transform your life based on your values on your terms. If this sounds like what you are looking for in a therapist and therapy, please click on the yellow button below to set up a free 20 minute consultation to meet me and find out if this is a good fit for you.

Some of the pain points I help clients with include:

  • Self-views

  • Anxiety

  • Burnout

  • Stress

  • Shame

  • Emotional Trauma/Abuse

  • Relationship Difficulties

  • Overwhelm

  • Perfectionism

  • Life Transitions

  • Grief

Experience & Background

I have been practicing as a therapist for about 5 years and have experience working at a college, rape and abuse crisis center, group practice, and community mental health center. Through these experiences, I’ve gained training and experience in working with people who struggle with anxiety, depression, overwhelm, trauma, grief, panic, personality concerns, relational challenges, self-views, perfectionism, shame, life transitions, & grief.

My Therapeutic Approaches

Eclectic

Eclectic means that I weave together many different treatment modalities to personalize the counseling space to better fit you. Based on our consultation meeting and first introductory session, I'll have a better idea of what would potentially be helpful to you based on getting to know you better. A healing and transformative therapy space, in my experience, is usually one that is fluid and adapts to changes you may be experiencing in life, with yourself, and when past experiences arise.

Mindfulness-based

I incorporate many mindfulness-based tools and personalize them based on my client’s interests, where they are in their mental health journey, and their needs. Mindfulness can help people achieve increased feelings of wellbeing, relaxation, and emotion & stress management.

Emotionally Focused

Emotions color our experiences and can play a large part in how we perceive ourselves, our past, life events, and what we deserve. I use this approach to help clients express, unlock, accept, and become more knowledge about and master their emotions as well as heal from past emotionally charged or damaging experiences.

Narrative

You are the author of your story, and we, as humans, tend to create meaning from them; our stories can influence our views of ourselves, others, and the world. Therapy can be a great place to unpack those stories, especially the ones that are damaging or interfering in your life.

Person-Centered

I use this approach to help clients in their journey of self-exploration, where the client and therapist relationship is collaborative, respectful, and warm; you know you best, and it's important to feel understood, seen, and cared for - you are not just a number. You are a person who deserves a clinician who is genuine, accepts you, and comes from a place of trying to understand. I do my best to help you be able to live authentically, balanced, and in-congruence with yourself.

Trauma-informed

I have helped clients heal from past trauma in my time working in a crisis center and community mental health center. I take a talk-based approach in helping people express and process emotions in the present to help them better understand themselves, their experiences, and understand and manage physiological symptoms.

Because Words Have The Ability To Inspire, Heal, And Shape Our World, Here Are Some Of My Favorite Quotes in the hopes they speak to you.

With every Change comes a loss and every loss must be grieved

Discover your values and align them with your actions

- ideas from Elaine Aron

“Daring Greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you’re feeling. To have the Hard Conversations.”

“you can choose courage or you can choose comfort but you cannot choose both.”

“Shame Corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”

“Shame cannot survive being spoken. it cannot survive empathy.”

“So often, when we feel lost, adrift in our lives, our first instinct is to look out into the distance to find the nearest shore. But that shore, that solid ground, is within us. the anchor we are searching for is connection, and it is internal.”

-Brene Brown

not all thoughts are facts

We may not, in the moment, understand our emotions or behavior & we do not feel things for no reason

We tend to feel first and our cognitions run to catch up - it can be good to give ourselves a space and time to reflect and increase our understandings of ourselves

If wanting Lasting and helpful change, it can be more effective to come from a place of self-acceptance and compassion, rather than hate, shame, or perfectionism

“Between stimulus and response, There is a space. in that space is our power to choose our Response. in our Response lies our growth and our freedom.”

“The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with Have a profound effect on who we are”

- Malcolm Gladwell

-Viktor E. Fankl