Elizabeth Shields, LMHC, LIMHP
Nebraska · 4 years in practice
Elizabeth Shields uses an emotionally focused, person-centered approach to help people work through stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns.
License and registration
- LIMHP, Nebraska
- 3905 · expires September 2026
- LMHC, Iowa
- 133141 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1679246599 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 4
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Shields uses an emotionally focused, person-centered approach to help people work through stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship concerns. She aims to build a trusting connection so clients can talk honestly about what matters to them. Elizabeth is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Independent Mental Health Practitioner (LIMHP) practicing from Nebraska.
She keeps sessions practical and grounded. Conversations cover day-to-day coping, self-esteem, sleep problems, and work or career stress.
Background and approach
Elizabeth also supports people facing burnout, compassion fatigue, addiction struggles, and mood concerns such as depression or bipolar disorder. Her work often explores attachment patterns and the emotions that drive behavior. She draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and reshape emotional responses.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy are used to notice unhelpful thoughts and build values-based action. Elizabeth describes therapy as an ongoing conversation shaped by each person's goals and values. She emphasizes strengths and looks at the whole person, including practical routines and relationships that affect daily life.
She also has personal experience as a parent of a child with multiple disabilities and brings understanding to caregiver stress. Sessions are offered in English and can include short-term goals or longer work if that fits the person's needs. She works with a wide range of concerns such as intimacy-related issues, communication problems, ADHD, body image, chronic illness, and codependency.
The focus is on helping people build coping skills and resilience for everyday life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Elizabeth lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coaching
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Elizabeth names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How emotionally focused approaches work online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify core emotions and how those feelings shape interactions and choices; it can be useful for managing relationship strain, intimacy concerns, and strong emotional reactions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking actions that fit personal values to improve day-to-day functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns from early relationships to understand how people connect, which can help with communication problems, abandonment concerns, and building safer emotional responses.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, values, and comfort level. That decision evolves over time as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and reading body language, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter updates, tracking progress, and staying connected between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, addiction, and many other concerns listed in her specialties.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is person-centered and emotionally focused with practical techniques from CBT and ACT to help change unhelpful thoughts and build values-based actions.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has four years of experience as a licensed mental health professional working with diverse concerns and life challenges.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She holds LMHC and LIMHP credentials and is based in Nebraska; the profile lists IA LMHC and NE LIMHP as the credential details.
Which languages and international options are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available online?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect for therapy.
How are costs and billing handled?
Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and costs vary with location and therapist availability.
How do I begin working with her?
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