- Client-centered
- Creative techniques
- Practical skills
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Baxt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with forty years of experience helping people reduce stress and improve relationships. She focuses on practical change, helping clients think more clearly, make better decisions, and cut out unnecessary drama. Her approach aims to increase self-esteem, ease anxiety, and support people through life changes like grief, career shifts, and challenges related to parenting and intimacy.
She believes therapy should be tailored to each person. Sessions combine conversation with creative techniques such as art and guided imagery alongside client-centered talk therapy. Elizabeth frames work as collaborative - she listens, offers feedback, and suggests skills clients can use between sessions.
Clients often leave sessions with a clearer next step and tools to manage problems. She emphasizes learning practical skills that fit everyday life, from managing compassion fatigue to rebuilding connection after a loss. Her style is direct and supportive, aimed at helping clients notice patterns and experiment with new ways of responding.
Elizabeth works with people who want to change and grow. She adapts pacing and methods to match a client’s needs and goals. Her long experience in the field informs a flexible, down-to-earth practice that focuses on what helps in daily life.
She practices as an LMFT in Oregon. If you are exploring therapy for stress, relationship strain, parenting concerns, or transitions, she invites you to consider whether this practical, client-centered style feels like a fit.
How client-centered work translates to online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person’s experience without judgment. It uses active listening, reflection, and open questions so clients can find their own solutions; this approach can help with relationship strain, parenting challenges, anxiety, and low self-esteem.Creative techniques such as guided imagery and art can be blended into this approach. Guided imagery helps people rehearse calmer responses and imagine change, while art-based activities can make feelings easier to name and work through when words are hard to find.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work together with the client to identify goals, test methods, and adjust what’s happening in sessions so it fits needs and preferences. Clients help shape the pace and mix of talk and creative work.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, avoid travel time, and maintain continuity through life transitions. It also allows some people to choose shorter check-ins or quieter times that better match work and family routines.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Also works with
Therapeutic approaches
Experience
40+ years
Listed in
California, Oregon
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and parenting concerns, self-esteem, grief, intimacy issues, career changes, depression, and compassion fatigue.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is client-centered and collaborative, combining talk therapy with creative tools like art and guided imagery to help clients learn new habits and coping skills.
How much experience does she have?
She brings forty years of clinical experience to her practice, which she uses to tailor therapy to each person’s needs.
What credentials and region are associated with this therapist?
She is an LMFT and practices in Oregon with experience also noted in California telemedicine work in the past.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
She is not currently accepting international clients.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to the therapist’s availability.