Elizabeth Mason

Elizabeth Mason is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Connecticut with five years of clinical experience. She approaches therapy from a strengths-based perspective, aiming to understand how personality traits and past survival behaviors shape current patterns of thinking and acting.

Elizabeth seeks to identify which behaviors once helped a person cope in crisis but are no longer serving them, and to support clients in discovering alternative, more helpful ways of responding. Her therapeutic stance is collaborative and non-judgmental, often reflective rather than directive, while remaining willing to offer clearer guidance when clients want it.

She uses a range of evidence-informed approaches including psychodynamic work, mindfulness practices, attachment theory, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy skills, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Elizabeth has experience working with children and teens, families affected by intergenerational trauma, and adults who have presented with acute mental health needs that at times required higher levels of care than standard outpatient therapy.

Her specialty areas include stress and anxiety, family conflict, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, LGBT concerns, relationship issues, grief, sleep disorders, parenting challenges, anger management, self-esteem, career difficulties, bipolar disorder, coping with life changes, and compassion fatigue.

Elizabeth will ask any client who reports passive suicidal thoughts or self-harm to follow a safety plan that includes regular discussion of those thoughts and behaviors. She uses evidence-based techniques to reduce the frequency and intensity of self-destructive thinking and actions, and if a client reports thoughts, a plan, and intent to harm themselves or others she will work to ensure they receive an evaluation for safety.