K. Elizabeth Garzarelli, LPC, LCMHC

K. Elizabeth Garzarelli is a licensed counselor practicing in North Carolina and South Carolina with 33 years of clinical experience. She holds the credentials LPC and LCMHC - Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - and brings long-standing expertise to work with individuals facing significant life transitions, emotional challenges, and professional shifts.

K. Elizabeth focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and self-esteem concerns while offering support for career change, caregiving stress, and midlife transitions. Her practice pays particular attention to the needs of women, older adults, and professionals navigating workplace dynamics or health-related adjustments. She also addresses trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, and the range of concerns that can accompany major life changes.

Her style is compassionate and collaborative, offering a holistic framework that helps clients rebuild purpose, reduce isolation, and develop resilient coping strategies. Whether working with someone coping with caregiver strain, confronting a midlife crisis, or seeking greater clarity in relationships and work, K. Elizabeth provides a warm therapeutic environment where exploration, practical support, and personal growth are central. She integrates clinical approaches to tailor treatment plans that fit each person’s goals and circumstances.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

K. Elizabeth Garzarelli commonly integrates client-centered therapy, existential therapy, and EMDR when appropriate. Client-centered therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship in which the therapist listens closely and supports the client in finding their own solutions; this approach is useful for building self-esteem, addressing anxiety, and navigating life changes. Existential therapy explores meaning, choice, and personal responsibility, helping people clarify values and purpose during midlife transitions, career shifts, or times of loss. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a structured approach used to process traumatic memories and reduce the distress they cause, often applied for trauma, abuse, and related symptoms.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. K. Elizabeth works collaboratively with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts methods over time to find the best fit for healing and growth.

Online therapy with K. Elizabeth is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which can make scheduling easier and reduce travel time. These options provide flexibility for people managing busy careers, caregiving responsibilities, health transitions, or geographically dispersed care, while allowing therapists and licensed professionals to maintain continuity of support across changing circumstances.