Elizabeth Malchow, LCSW

Elizabeth Malchow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with seven years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and major life shifts. She practices from Wisconsin and brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions. Liz focuses on practical skills people can use between meetings. She likes clear goals and short-term tools alongside deeper exploration.

Her approach blends cognitive behavioral ideas with attachment-informed work and client-centered care. That means she helps people spot unhelpful thoughts, notice relationship patterns, and follow the pace each person prefers. She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy and emotionally-focused techniques when they fit the problem.

Sessions often include hands-on activities and mindfulness exercises. Liz sometimes suggests creative projects that help people notice how they were shaped by earlier experiences. Those tasks are meant to increase self-awareness and build new ways to cope.

She tailors plans to each person’s needs and goals. That could mean short-term skill building for anxiety or a longer process for grief and attachment wounds. The focus is on useful change you can see in daily life.

Liz works with many concerns including relationship strain, parenting stress, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, career questions, bipolar-related coping, and chronic illness challenges. She aims to make therapy a steady place to try new ways of handling difficult moments.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Elizabeth integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy into online work. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which translates well to video or phone sessions where she can offer worksheets and step-by-step practice. Attachment-based work looks at patterns in relationships and helps people recognize how early bonds shape present feelings and reactions.

Finding the right approach is part of the early sessions. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That might mean prioritizing skill-building for immediate relief or spending more time on relational patterns when deeper healing is needed.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared worksheets. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging support brief check-ins, skill coaching between sessions, and flexible contact during busy weeks.