Elizabeth Elliott-Staggs

Elizabeth Elliott-Staggs is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) licensed in California and Texas with 30 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are dealing with addictions, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, anxiety, and major life changes. Elizabeth also supports people wrestling with career questions, parenting strain, eating concerns, LGBT issues, and finding a sense of life purpose.

In session she focuses on practical conversation and steady pacing. She invites clients to talk through difficult thoughts and feelings and to notice what gets in the way of daily functioning. Sessions tend to emphasize clear steps and honest feedback rather than abstract talk.

Elizabeth has worked across many settings over three decades and draws on that breadth to shape how she responds to different problems. She pays attention to patterns in relationships, the role of trauma, and how loss or separation changes priorities. Those themes often guide the work together.

When people come for help with addiction or compulsive behaviors, she addresses triggers and coping strategies along with relationship dynamics that maintain the problem. For grief and postpartum depression she uses practical ways to manage daily routines while processing heavy emotions.

For someone feeling stuck about career or life purpose, Elizabeth explores values, realistic next steps, and ways to test new directions. She encourages small experiments that fit day-to-day life and that show which options are workable before making big changes.

How Elizabeth uses evidence-based methods online

Evidence-based therapeutic techniques commonly focus on clear, structured practices that help people change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Cognitive-style approaches work by identifying thinking patterns that contribute to anxiety, depression, or compulsive behavior, then testing alternative ways of thinking and acting to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.

Behavioral strategies target the actions that keep a problem going. For addictions, compulsions, or mood problems this can mean building new routines, planning coping responses to triggers, and practicing small behavioral experiments to see what changes help. These techniques aim to give practical tools alongside conversation.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that match current needs, goals, and preferences. That means trying a method, checking how it lands, and adjusting the plan based on what actually helps.

The biography does not list specific online session formats. Confirm the available formats before booking to know how sessions will be delivered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce travel time when balancing appointments with work or parenting.