Dr. Elizabeth Franklin, LPC

Dr. Elizabeth Franklin is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with 20 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addiction while honoring each person's life story. Dr. Franklin aims to make therapy straightforward and practical so clients can start feeling steadier sooner.

She creates a supportive space for people to talk through difficult changes. That can include job stress, relationship shifts, grief, or struggles with sleep and eating. She pays attention to how life events, identity, and culture shape what someone is going through.

Her work uses clear, evidence-based methods to build coping skills and make daily life more manageable. Sessions often include setting small goals, practicing new ways of thinking, and trying out specific strategies between meetings. The focus is on what helps an individual move forward in real life.

Dr. Franklin also helps with longer-term challenges like bipolar disorder, trauma and abuse, and addiction. She offers coaching-style support for career questions and life transitions as well. Her aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes.

People who choose her often want a therapist who listens closely and offers practical next steps. She supports those working on communication, self-esteem, intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and caregiver stress. The approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs.

How her approaches inform online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead and emphasizes empathy and respect, which helps when someone needs space to talk through feelings like grief or identity concerns.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses practical exercises and homework to change unhelpful thinking and reduce anxiety, depression, and stress-related symptoms.

Solution-Focused Therapy zeroes in on small, achievable changes. It helps clients identify what’s already working and build on those strengths to move past immediate problems like sleep issues or relationship friction.

Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and past experiences to pick methods that fit. That plan can change over time as needs shift and progress is made.

If you prefer online sessions, confirm the current session formats before booking. Online options can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time so sessions happen between other obligations. Licensed professionals can adapt these methods to work well over remote meetings, focusing on practical tools you can use day to day.