Elizabeth Shantharaj

Elizabeth Shantharaj is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with six years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, family conflict, and trauma. Elizabeth aims to create a space where people can begin to trust the therapeutic relationship and, importantly, learn to trust themselves again.

Her work focuses on how past experiences shape present-day relationships with others and with oneself. She guides people to notice patterns that cause pain and to try new ways of relating. Sessions include straightforward conversation and practical skills that can be used between meetings.

Elizabeth uses methods drawn from attachment-focused work, client-centered practice, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR, and mindfulness. She and each person decide together which approaches best fit the issue and the person's goals. The tone is collaborative and paced to what the person can tolerate.

People who come for help with fertility-related stress, codependency, guilt and shame, mood struggles, social anxiety, or post-traumatic stress can expect focused attention on those concerns. Elizabeth frames work around small, achievable steps so progress feels manageable.

All sessions are conducted in English and take place with her Texas licensure in mind. Prospective clients are encouraged to complete the site intake questionnaire to match with her and schedule according to her availability.

How her approaches translate to online care

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of connecting. In sessions this looks like talking about patterns in relationships and practicing new responses to build more secure connections. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers concrete tools to test and change unhelpful thinking that fuels anxiety and low mood. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used to address distress tied to past traumatic events by working through painful memories in a structured way to reduce their emotional intensity.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals, comfort level, and pace. She checks in regularly so the approach can be adjusted as progress or setbacks arise.

Confirm the specific session options before booking, as formats are listed on the therapist's profile. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow quieter, shorter check-ins when needed. It can also let people continue work from home when life events make in-person visits difficult. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to remote sessions while focusing on what the person wants to change.