About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Kostura is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and big life changes. She listens carefully and focuses on what matters most to each person. Her style is direct and practical, aimed at steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She has 22 years of experience working with a wide range of concerns. That includes panic, post-traumatic stress, grief, divorce, body image struggles, and mood disorders.
Background and approach
She also addresses substance use, eating-related issues, and money or financial stressors. Elizabeth brings particular experience supporting first responders and people recovering from sexual assault. She also works with issues around gender dysphoria, postpartum depression, and family-of-origin patterns.
Her approach honors each person’s history while keeping sessions focused on present goals and next steps. Her work follows evidence-based therapeutic techniques and centers on collaboration. Clients set the pace and priorities, and she offers tools and skills tailored to those goals.
Sessions aim to help people reduce symptoms, manage stress, and make clearer choices in daily life. Elizabeth practices in Pennsylvania and sees people from varied backgrounds, including international clients when appropriate. She welcomes straightforward conversations about needs, expectations, and practical steps for getting started.
Approaches that guide online work
Elizabeth’s practice is grounded in evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and symptom relief. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches breathing, grounding, and emotion regulation strategies to manage panic, anxiety, and distress. These are concrete tools clients can practice between sessions to reduce symptoms.Another frequent element is trauma-informed care, which moves at a person’s pace and focuses on safety, stabilization, and reclaiming routine functioning after traumatic experiences. This helps people who have PTSD, sexual assault recovery needs, or intense stress responses find steadier footing.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Elizabeth will talk with each person about their history, goals, and preferences and then adapt techniques that fit those needs. She checks in regularly to make sure methods are helping and adjusts the plan when needed.
If you are considering online therapy, confirm the therapist’s current session options before booking since formats were not specified in the biography. Many people find remote sessions easier to fit into work and family schedules, simplify travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Others prefer in-person appointments for a different pace, so discussing practical needs and rhythms will help decide what will work best.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English