Dr. Elizabeth Franklin , LPC

Dr. Elizabeth Franklin is a licensed therapist in Missouri with 20 years of clinical experience supporting people through complex life challenges. Licensed as an LPC - Licensed Professional Counselor - she combines extensive training with a compassionate, person-focused outlook to address issues such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and addiction.

Her work emphasizes understanding each client's individual story and tailoring interventions to meet those specific needs. She routinely helps clients navigate difficult transitions, relationship dynamics, workplace stress, and multicultural concerns, and she has a particular interest in areas like self-esteem, communication struggles, isolation, and discovering life purpose.

Dr. Franklin integrates evidence-based methods into a practice that honors lived experience and cultural context. She draws on therapeutic techniques to build practical coping strategies, improve interpersonal functioning, and support emotional recovery. Over two decades she has guided people through grief, family challenges, parenting issues, and changes related to career or aging.

Her approach blends clinical rigor with empathic listening and a focus on measurable progress, aiming to help clients identify strengths and develop meaningful, sustainable strategies for growth and well-being.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Dr. Elizabeth Franklin commonly integrates Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT, and Solution-Focused Therapy into her clinical work. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and supporting each person to explore their values and choices, which can help with self-esteem, relationship concerns, and life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and learning practical skills to reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. Solution-Focused Therapy targets specific goals and builds on existing strengths to create rapid, actionable change for problems like communication difficulties or short-term crises.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dr. Franklin works collaboratively with clients to assess needs, preferences, and goals, and then tailors methods so the work fits each individual. This collaborative process helps determine whether short-term skill-building, deeper exploration, or a combination of approaches will be most useful.

Online therapy offers flexible options such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which can make regular care more accessible around work, family, or mobility constraints. These formats support ongoing communication and allow licensed professionals to provide consistent guidance and practical strategies from a distance.