Elizabeth Giele, LCSW, LICSW

Elizabeth Giele is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker - LICSW practicing in New Mexico with 35 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship questions, codependency, caregiver strain, health challenges, and career transitions. Sessions are offered in English and reflect her long history supporting people through life changes and losses.

She uses a person-centered, client-centered style that begins by listening and learning what matters to each person. That foundation shapes how she chooses tools from mindfulness, narrative work, acceptance and commitment ideas, and life coaching. Conversations focus on practical steps people can try between sessions as well as shifts in self-understanding.

Her background includes extensive hospice and palliative social work and experience helping people manage serious illness, end-of-life planning, and caregiving stress. She also brings decades of work with grief, bereavement, and with people facing major life transitions such as divorce, job loss, or retirement planning. This experience informs her approach to practical problem solving and emotional coping.

In sessions she pays attention to values, daily routines, and relationships that matter most to the client. She helps people notice patterns like people-pleasing, trouble saying no, or losing themselves in relationships, and then practices specific, concrete alternatives. Work can include mindfulness exercises, narrative reframing, and building small behavioral experiments to test new ways of acting.

People who choose her often want clear, steady support during hard changes. She invites straightforward conversation about goals and what will feel useful, and she adjusts methods as needs evolve.

How her approaches work in online sessions