Elizabeth Carter, LMHC
Florida · 32 years in practice
Elizabeth Carter is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Florida with 32 years of clinical experience.
License and registration
- LMHC, Florida
- MH1645 · expires March 2027
- NPI
- 1053057398 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 32
- Languages
- English
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About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Carter is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor practicing in Florida with 32 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, depression, and other life challenges. Her work aims to create a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about what matters to them.
Taking a first step toward change often feels hard, and she offers steady support through that process.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches such as Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to guide sessions. Those methods shape how she helps people identify feelings, notice patterns, and try new behaviors. Conversations are practical and down to earth, with time spent on skills people can use between sessions.
Elizabeth also uses client-centered and cognitive behavioral ideas to match interventions to each person’s needs. That means sessions follow the client’s pace and goals rather than a fixed script. She pays attention to how life stress, relationships, grief, and identity issues affect mood and everyday functioning.
Over three decades she has worked with a wide range of concerns, from coping with career strain to managing anger, addiction, or chronic illness. Her style is clear and direct but empathetic, aiming to make therapy understandable and useful. She helps people set manageable steps and build on small changes.
People meet with her by phone, video, live chat, or text messaging. Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Elizabeth lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- ADHD
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Elizabeth names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people tune into their emotions and understand how those feelings shape relationships and choices. In online sessions this looks like focused conversations that help identify patterns in how a person reacts and connects with others.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches skills to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck, and to commit to actions that match personal values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions and works well through exercises and short practices between sessions.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current emotional needs and behavior. Online work can help people spot attachment patterns and try new ways of relating in everyday life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and try methods that fit the client's needs. That collaborative process means techniques can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit quick check-ins or ongoing support, and text-based messaging can fit brief updates during a busy day. These options give flexibility to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Elizabeth commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, depression, ADHD, addictions, grief, relationship and intimacy challenges, and many related concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is calm and practical. Sessions focus on understanding feelings, noticing patterns, and trying useful skills between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She has 32 years of professional experience as a counselor in clinical settings and independent practice.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, FL LMHC, and practices in Florida.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What is the first step to begin working together?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to the therapist's availability.
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