Elizabeth Giele, LCSW, LICSW

Elizabeth Giele is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 35 years of experience providing counseling and coaching services. She holds the LCSW and LICSW credentials - both professional licenses for clinical social work - and practices from New Mexico, offering care in English.

Her approach centers on a person-focused, strengths-based stance that emphasizes careful, nonjudgmental listening and respect for each individual’s values and goals. She blends mindfulness and insight-oriented methods with life coaching and cognitive-behavioral techniques to strengthen self-compassion, build confidence, and expand coping skills for life’s challenges.

Elizabeth routinely supports people facing loss, major life changes, and crises such as serious medical diagnoses, bereavement, divorce, job transitions, questions about relationships and sexuality, and caregiving responsibilities for older family members. She brings specialized experience in life and personal development coaching, career concerns, grief and loss, coping with life-threatening illness, navigating medical systems, LGBTQ+ matters, and caregiver and compassion fatigue support, particularly for adult children and caregivers of elderly parents.

Her clinical toolkit includes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), client-centered and existential methods, mindfulness, narrative and psychodynamic techniques, solution-focused strategies, somatic work, and systemic therapy. Elizabeth works collaboratively with individuals to enhance wellbeing, increase resilience, and pursue more authentic, satisfying lives.