Elisabeth Burn, LMHC

Elisabeth Burn is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York with ten years of experience in community mental health. She greets people with a warm, interactive style and focuses on practical steps that help them move forward. Elisabeth uses straightforward conversation to understand what matters most to each person and to set clear goals together.

She brings experience supporting people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges. Elisabeth also works with concerns like grief, addiction, intimacy-related issues, career stress, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes attention to abandonment, blended family issues, body image, caregiver stress, codependency, and communication problems.

Elisabeth blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with client-centered and dialectical behavior ideas to make therapy useful and grounded. She also draws on mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people notice patterns and find workable changes. Sessions are tailored to the person's needs rather than following a rigid plan.

In sessions she aims to be respectful and nonjudgmental while helping people build on their strengths. Conversations focus on concrete skills, coping strategies, and small experiments to try between sessions. The goal is steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes.

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and communication preferences. People who prefer a collaborative, practical approach to change may find her style a good fit.

How Elisabeth Uses Goal-Focused Approaches Online

Elisabeth often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety and low mood. CBT sessions tend to include simple exercises and homework to test changes between meetings.

She also uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers the conversation on the person's own goals and lived experience. In this approach the therapist listens with curiosity and helps the person clarify what they want to change. Elisabeth incorporates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when people need tools for managing intense emotions and improving communication; DBT skills can include grounding, emotion regulation, and practical tactics for problem moments.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Elisabeth collaborates with each person to choose methods that fit their needs, goals, and preferences rather than imposing a single model. Together they adjust the plan as progress and life circumstances change.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow real-time conversation that resembles an in-person session. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a session needs to fit a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching-style support, or when someone prefers typed communication. These options make scheduling easier and let people work on goals from different places and routines.