Elizabeth Malchow, LCSW

Elizabeth Malchow is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with seven years of clinical experience. She earned a Master of Social Work with an emphasis in mental health and brings a warm, kind, and reflective presence to sessions. Elizabeth aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She helps people feel seen and understood as they take steps toward change.

Elizabeth blends practical skill-building with reflective conversation. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also draws on attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to look at how relationships and early experiences shape current reactions.

Sessions often include mindfulness exercises and simple creative activities. These practices are meant to build awareness and new ways of coping, not to be art projects for skill alone. Elizabeth tailors each plan to fit a person's needs and life circumstances, aiming for approaches that fit day-to-day life.

She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, relationship and family issues, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, parenting strain, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include abandonment, attachment issues, body image, chronic pain and illness, codependency, communication problems, dissociation, and divorce and separation.

Elizabeth is based in Wisconsin and practices in English. Her style is collaborative and nonjudgmental, and she encourages people to take gradual steps toward stronger coping and clearer choices.

How Elizabeth blends proven approaches for online care

Elizabeth draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT often includes clear, practical exercises such as tracking thoughts, testing assumptions, and practicing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood.

She also uses attachment-based and emotionally-focused ideas to explore how early relationships shape current reactions. These approaches look at patterns in close relationships and help people shift interaction styles and emotional responses that cause pain or confusion.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and personal preferences. She will adjust tools and pacing over time so therapy fits how someone learns and grows.

If you are considering online work, confirm which session formats are offered before booking. Online appointments can make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Talk with the therapist about what will work best for scheduling and for the kinds of activities you want to try online.