- Attachment-focused care
- Trauma-informed work
- Thirty years experience
About Elizbeth
Elizbeth Keeney is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people who feel anxious, empty, detached, or misunderstood. She uses a listening-first approach to understand each person’s story. Sessions focus on making sense of past wounds and how those wounds affect daily life now.
She begins by assuming she does not yet know a client's full experience. Then she asks questions, pays close attention, and joins with the client to map moments where early relationships felt interrupted. Those earlier losses and breaks often show up now as anxiety, depression, compulsions, fear, or agitation.
Her work centers on gentle, honest engagement. That means offering warmth and clear feedback while encouraging people to let down defenses and feel what comes up. Over time clients can remember, process, and bring together parts of themselves that feel split off.
Elizbeth describes her practice as integrative psychotherapy. She draws on attachment-focused work, psychodynamic ideas, and trauma-focused methods to help people restore a stronger sense of self and relate differently to others. She also supports people coping with natural or human-caused disaster as part of her focus areas.
She brings thirty years of clinical experience and holds LCSW licensure. Elizbeth continues professional learning through workshops and trainings. To begin, she invites prospective clients to reach out and describe their concerns so they can explore next steps together.
How attachment and trauma work translate online
Elizbeth uses attachment-based ideas to look at how important early relationships shape current feelings and behavior; this approach focuses on building trust in the therapy relationship and identifying repeated patterns. Psychodynamic work helps uncover long-standing themes and unconscious feelings that influence choices and moods, which can be useful for ongoing depression or relationship struggles. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on helping people process distressing events and reduce the ways those memories cause reactivity in daily life.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to see which methods fit their goals and preferences. That collaborative process includes trying things, checking how they land, and adjusting as needed so therapy feels helpful and practical.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the available session options when you book since formats were not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, lower travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when people only need brief or focused support. Many clients find that discussing attachment patterns, traumatic memories, and emotional themes can be effective through remote sessions as long as scheduling and session length match their needs.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
30+ years
Credentials
New York, New Jersey
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Elizbeth help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, LGBT concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.
What style of therapy does she use?
Her approach is integrative and relational, using attachment-based, psychodynamic, and trauma-focused methods to look at how past relationships affect present feelings and behavior.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has thirty years of experience working in clinical practice and continues professional development through workshops and trainings.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds LCSW licensure in New York and New Jersey and is based in New Jersey.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the country work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are fees and billing handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.