Elizabeth Brennan, LMSW

Elizabeth Brennan is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) practicing in Michigan with eight years of clinical experience. She works with people facing depression, anxiety, stress, relationship problems, and many life transitions. She also supports concerns such as addiction, grief, parenting strain, body image, and issues connected to family of origin.

Before moving to Michigan for undergraduate study, she lived in San Diego and later completed a master's degree in 2017. Her background includes work in public mental health across direct care, assessment and diagnosis, case management, and therapy. She has also volunteered in community arts and development projects.

Elizabeth combines practical talk therapy with approaches that address thinking patterns and emotional regulation. In sessions she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, learn skills for managing strong feelings, and practice present-moment awareness. She also uses eye movement techniques when appropriate for people processing distressing memories.

Her approach includes drawing on creativity when it fits a person’s style, such as using art-based ways to name feelings or try different responses. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with concrete skills to try between meetings. She aims to help people recognize how family roles and early patterns still affect current relationships and daily choices.

Outside work she spends time making pottery and watercolors, gardening, fermenting foods, and cooking. That personal interest in creative practice informs how she sometimes works with stress, expression, and coping.

Clinical approaches used in remote sessions