Elisabeth Spear, LICSW, LCSW

Elisabeth Spear is a licensed social worker with 25 years of clinical experience who helps people navigate complex emotional and relational challenges. She focuses on supporting those coping with depression, anxiety, stress, and self-esteem concerns while also guiding clients through life transitions, identity exploration, and questions about life purpose. Her practice is attentive to attachment-related difficulties and trauma recovery, and she works with individuals and couples exploring a range of relationship structures, including polyamory and other alternative arrangements.

Her style is compassionate and nonjudgmental, emphasizing individualized care that honors each person’s history and goals. She offers practical tools for communication, boundary setting, and coping, alongside deeper work around family of origin issues, intimacy, and identity. Elisabeth also supports people managing addictions, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, and she offers coaching-oriented interventions when helpful.

Elisabeth’s approach blends evidence-based techniques with relational sensitivity so clients receive both skill-building and empathic understanding. She holds LICSW and LCSW credentials, which stand for Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Clinical Social Worker, reflecting advanced training and state licensure in clinical social work.