Providing counseling services to Individuals, families, & couples. Offering in-office and telehealth
Providing counseling services to Individuals , families and couples. Offering in office sessions in Newton KS and online session's in Kansas and Colorado.
12/14/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📗 Day 12: The Zen Monkey and the Lotus Flower by Daniel Apollo
A gentle, mindfulness-based guide that uses simple parables and reflections to help readers slow down, find balance, and reconnect with inner peace. Perfect for anyone wanting calm and clarity during busy seasons of life.
12/13/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📙 Day 11: The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
An essential parenting resource that breaks down how children’s brains develop—and how adults can respond in ways that support emotional regulation, resilience, and healthy growth. Backed by neuroscience and full of practical tools.
12/12/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📘 Day 10: Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen
A clear and accessible guide to understanding how our thoughts create emotional suffering. Nguyen helps readers challenge mental habits, disrupt unhelpful thinking patterns, and experience greater peace from the inside out.
12/11/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📗 Day 9: Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I’ve Loved) by Kate Bowler
In this moving memoir, Bowler writes with honesty and humor about facing illness and the myth that suffering must have a neat explanation. A touching reflection on vulnerability, faith, and what it means to be human.
12/10/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📙 Day 8: The Lives We Actually Have by Kate Bowler & Jessica Richie
A heartfelt collection of blessings for all of life’s seasons—not just the shiny ones. Bowler and Richie offer words for moments of joy, exhaustion, grief, and uncertainty, reminding us that every version of our life is worth honoring.
12/09/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📘 Day 7: Raising Good Humans by Hunter Clarke-Fields
A mindful parenting guide that focuses on breaking reactive cycles and nurturing children with intention. Through mindfulness practices and practical strategies, parents learn how to show up with calm, connection, and emotional presence.
12/08/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📗 Day 6: Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson
Gibson outlines the traits of emotionally immature parents and the lasting impact on their children. This compassionate guide helps readers understand unhealthy family dynamics and teaches tools for boundaries, healing, and emotional freedom.
12/07/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📙 Day 5: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
A beautiful blend of Indigenous wisdom, ecology, and personal narrative. Kimmerer invites readers to see the natural world as teacher, healer, and kin—offering a restorative perspective on connection, gratitude, and stewardship.
12/06/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📘 Day 4: Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
A foundational text on trauma and the nervous system, this book introduces Somatic Experiencing. Levine explains how trauma gets “stuck” in the body and offers pathways to restoring the natural healing process.
12/05/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📗 Day 3: The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O’Connor
Blending science and compassion, this book explains why grief feels the way it does. O’Connor, a neuroscientist, helps readers understand the brain’s role in attachment and loss, bringing validation and insight to anyone navigating grief.
12/04/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
📙 Day 2: The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod
This bestselling self-improvement guide introduces the “SAVERS” routine—Silence, Affirmations, Visualization, Exercise, Reading, and Scribing. Elrod shows how a simple morning practice can drastically improve clarity, motivation, and overall well-being.
12/03/2025
🎄📚 Friesen Counseling’s 12 Days of Book Recommendations 📚🎄
The holiday season is the perfect time to slow down, reflect, and nourish your emotional well-being. Over the next 12 days, we’re sharing some of our clinicians’ favorite reads—books that inspire healing, growth, and deeper understanding of ourselves and others.
Follow along for daily posts, reflections, and tools to support your mental wellness this holiday season.
— Friesen Counseling💚
📘 Day 1: For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional by Hanna Reichel
A comforting, down-to-earth devotional designed for moments when life feels heavy. Reichel offers short, grounding reflections that meet readers exactly where they are—emotionally honest, spiritually gentle, and perfect for anyone needing support in crisis or uncertainty.
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My name is Elizabeth Friesen and I am an experienced counselor in family, individual and couples therapy. I specialize in stress management, trauma, anxiety and depression. I also have 7 years of experience providing therapeutic services to diverse populations, different age groups and all mental health concerns. I am a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker in Kansas and Colorado and an Addiction Counselor in Kansas. I am also certified in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
I have experience in working with a broad range of behavioral, emotional, and psychological issues that impact the lives of children, adolescents, families and couples including but not limited to:
Addiction
Anxiety
Depression
Behavioral Issues
Bipolar Disorder
Coping Skills
Domestic Violence
Dual Diagnosis
Emotional Disturbance
Family Conflict
Grief
Infidelity
Relationship Issues
Stress
Trauma and PTSD
Women’s Issues
As the primary counselor, I opened Friesen Counseling Services so I could commit myself to helping people find their direction, just as I have found mine. Friesen Counseling is unique because in addition to traditional therapy, we also provide face-to-face online counseling for your convenience. This service allows you to live anywhere in the state of Kansas or Colorado and receive services from Friesen Counseling Services. We also provide in office visits in the Towncenter building at 120 W. 6th st in Newton Kansas.