Elizabeth Tebo, LCSW

Elizabeth Tebo is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with two decades of practice in California. She focuses on practical skills and clear steps to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood concerns, and relationship or intimacy-related struggles. Elizabeth encourages clients to use their own strengths while she offers support and structure through change.

She often begins with simple, hands-on techniques to reduce immediate distress. That might include identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying short behavioral experiments, or learning grounding practices to steady difficult emotions. Sessions move at the clients pace and focus on what feels most useful in daily life.

Elizabeth draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy alongside mindfulness and somatic approaches. She blends these tools to address trauma, grief, sleep problems, career stress, caregiving strain, and mood conditions such as depression or bipolar-related concerns. Solution-focused methods help set small, reachable goals when a person needs direction.

Her work also covers issues linked to family of origin, fertility and hospice concerns, first responder stress, and recovery after sexual assault. She aims to create a straightforward plan that fits each persons circumstances. Elizabeth values collaboration and helps people try manageable changes between sessions.

Clients who prefer talking through feelings as well as practicing new skills often find this approach helpful. Treatment is delivered in formats that suit busy lives, and conversations emphasize real-world coping and steady progress.

How evidence-based approaches translate to online care

Elizabeth commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy to address patterns of thinking and daily habits that fuel stress and mood concerns. CBT focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, while mindfulness practices help people notice sensations and emotions without reacting so they can choose different responses.

She also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills when emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are priorities. DBT offers concrete tools for managing intense feelings, tolerating distress, and improving communication during conflict. Together these approaches target symptoms like anxiety, grief, sleep disruption, and trauma-related reactivity in practical ways.

Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which tools match their goals, pace, and preferences. Sessions include trying techniques in real life and adjusting plans based on what helps.

Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules. Video supports deeper conversation and skills practice, phone is useful when bandwidth is limited, chat or text can provide quick check-ins or brief coaching, and messaging helps people reflect between meetings. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives while working toward steady progress.