Shirley "Elizabeth" Loftin
Compassionate counselor with 40 years' experience
LPC Louisiana
- Experience
- 40 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, LGBT, Trauma and abuse
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Shirley
Shirley "Elizabeth" Loftin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana who offers support for people navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, mood disorders, relationship struggles, grief, and identity-related concerns.
Background and approach
With four decades of clinical experience, she draws on a range of therapeutic tools to help clients identify strengths, build coping skills, and work toward clearer goals. Elizabeth approaches each person with respect for their expertise about their own life and encourages practical steps that fit the client’s values and circumstances.
Her work integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, client-centered principles, and trauma-focused techniques to address recurring patterns, manage distressing symptoms, and process painful experiences. She routinely supports people coping with issues such as bipolar disorder, panic, dissociation, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue, as well as challenges connected to aging, autism spectrum concerns, and gender identity.
Elizabeth invites clients to explore their resources and develop new strategies, offering collaborative guidance across transitions and hard moments.
Approaches for online healing and skill building
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety, panic, and mood instability. It is practical and skill-based, often useful for stress, depression, and specific worries.
Trauma-Focused Therapy centers on understanding and processing traumatic experiences while teaching grounding and emotion-regulation skills to reduce reactivity and avoidance. This approach can help people work through post-traumatic stress and related symptoms at a pace that fits their needs.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to a client’s concerns, goals, and preferences and then tailor sessions using client-centered principles and evidence-informed techniques. Together they decide which tools to prioritize and adapt as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility because sessions can happen by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions and for those who prefer remote access, while still allowing therapists to teach skills, review progress, and support emotional processing.
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Experience
40+ years
Licensed
Louisiana
Languages
English