Elizabeth Batson provides counseling to a diverse group of children, teens and adults, both individually and as a couple or a family.

People seek counseling from Elizabeth at different stages of life, and for many different reasons. Some of these include

•  Feeling overwhelmed or struggling to cope with the challenges in your life. You may be feeling stress, anxiety, depression, anger, worry & frustration.
• Questioning who you are and how you fit into the world. This often occurs at times of transition such as from child to teen, from teen to adult, from active parenting to supporting an adult child and from the working world to retirement. These questions can also occur at times of loss.
•  Coping with the impact of disability or illness on your family. You may be trying to deal with your own disability or be the parent or sibling of a person with special needs.
• Wanting to improve your relationship with the people that you care about – parents, partners, children and friends.
• Wanting to create a healthy, balanced sense of self-esteem. This might be due a recent loss of ability or independence or the problem may have its roots in childhood trauma, a dysfunctional family or experiencing pervasive prejudice at school or in the community.

Experience

Elizabeth Batson has been working with clients since 2006 and has been a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) since May 2012. She earned her MA in counseling psychology from Santa Clara University in 2009.

Previously Elizabeth was a Counseling Intern at the Process Therapy Institute, working with diverse clients; at Parents Helping Parents, counseling parents and siblings of children with special needs; at the Silicon Valley Independent Living Center, working with adults with disabilities or special needs and as a Counseling Trainee at the Adolescent Counseling Services, helping middle school students.

Before becoming a counselor, Elizabeth worked in marketing, business, and technology licensing. During those years, her volunteer jobs included parent educator, classroom aide, and Girl Scout leader.

Education

-       Santa Clara University – MA in Counseling Psychology

-       Stanford University – MBA from the Graduate School of Business

-       Dartmouth College – BA in Mathematics & Sociology

Find Out More

To find out more about Elizabeth's counseling services, call her at 408-462-2443 or send her an email.