Elizabeth McGuire
Intervention Consultant
and Family Therapist
Overview of Services
Elizabeth McGuire offers consultation and therapy to adolescents, young adults, and their families. Specializing in working with clients who are in crisis, Elizabeth advises clients who are at risk due to on-going high-risk self-defeating behaviors, such as drugs and alcohol, and/or struggling with other psychological problems.
Expertise in Treatment Options
She travels and evaluates schools and programs on a regular basis throughout the country to understand what places work best to heal young people’s lives. Elizabeth has personally visited and/or has standing relationships with 200+ treatment facilities ranging from Hawaii to Miami.
Elizabeth has three different areas of practice:
- Intervention and Placement Services
- For families who are looking for the most effective intervention and treatment available for their child’s specific psychological and academic needs
- Parent Consultation
- For parents who are in crisis with their child or who are looking for guidance in parenting their child who is in treatment
- Individual Therapy with Adolescent and Young Adults
- For adolescents and young adults who are looking to engage in a weekly process of ongoing outpatient psychotherapy
Getting Started
All services begin with an initial consultation that lasts for approximately two hours or longer depending on the situation. At the end of the initial consultation an action plan is created in writing that defines the objectives and goals and how to proceed.
Focus on Collaboration
Elizabeth’s practice includes collaborating with all other providers and professionals who are working with the client and/or their family.
The Three Phases of Consulting at RLI
Pre-Consultation Phase: An initial consultation with Elizabeth is required to discuss objectives and goals and to create an action plan that includes intervention and placement services or a strategy with outpatient therapy. The initial consultation usually lasts two hours or more, depending on the situation.
- Phase One: Assessment
- Get release of authorization to speak with all other providers and professionals that are involved
- Gather data, review any psychological evaluations, other testing, educational plans, and academic records and interview local mental health professionals and educators that are identified by client and/or family as having a valuable perspective on the situation
- Discuss details with colleagues and different admissions’ offices on behalf of the client and client’s family
- Phase Two: Placement
- A written Summary of Recommendations is created that includes objectives and goals and pros and cons of each recommendation, admissions’ contact information, and an overview of therapeutic model, facility’s geographic location, and profiles of therapist(s)
- A meeting takes place to discuss the list of recommendations
- If appropriate, an on-site visit is encouraged and preparation for visiting is offered, including a list of written questions to ask
**Please note: Often families go through the placement process twice. Please see “Levels of Care” for further information
- Phase Three: Monitoring
- On-call monitoring is available throughout retainer, for trouble shooting and quality control of services
- Monitor progress of client through communication with therapist and/or educator on an established regular basis
**Weekly consultation on an hourly basis is available to parents who are looking for more guidance on how to navigate the treatment process with their child
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Levels of Care
As a trained clinical social worker, Elizabeth has a special interest in levels of care and her practice operates on the philosophy that individuals should be in the least restrictive environment available that meets their needs for only the amount of time necessary to meet their goals and objectives.
Individuals who engage in treatment at their ideal level of care, who are matched well with an effective treatment model and treatment team for their own special needs and abilities, can expect the greatest amount of progress within the least amount of time.
Two Basic Levels of Care: Short–Term Intensive Care and Long-Term Extended Care
- Short-Term Intensive Care (sometimes referred to as primary care) acts as a catalyst for change. Short-term care ranges in models from in-patient psychiatry units and substance abuse treatment programs to therapeutic wilderness programs. Typical length of stay ranges from 30 to 90 days.
Objectives of short-term intensive treatment:
- Stabilize behaviors and emotions
- Thoroughly assess the individual’s situation
- Offer therapeutic supports and interventions
- Support aftercare planning
- Long-Term Extended Care maintains and promotes further change to the extent that the individual integrates these changes into their life. Long-Term Extended Care ranges in models from long-term residential treatment centers, therapeutic boarding schools, traditional boarding schools with the proper added supports, and/or reintegration at home with outpatient therapy and other appropriate supports. Typical length of stay can range anywhere from less than 6 months to two years.
Objectives of extended care:
- Sustain healing and growth
- Help an individual manifest true and positive change, often with new life skills
Elizabeth’s clients usually utilize her services for both short-term care recommendations and then long-term recommendations.
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Biography
Elizabeth McGuire is an intervention consultant and therapist. Beth provides independent intervention consultation for adolescents and young adults who struggle with substance abuse and/or psychological problems and assists families with education and therapy for appropriate individualized residential placement. Beth also provides individual therapy for adolescents, young adults, and their family members. Beth comes to RRS with over eight years in the mental health field and a broad training in various treatment models. Prior to joining RRS, Beth launched her own company – EMW Consulting – specializing in interventions and treatment planning for young adults.
She has a broad range of psychological and educational experience and knowledge. Her specialty is collaborating locally and nationally with different psychiatrists, psychologists, addiction specialists, therapists, educators, and other experts to create sophisticated, results-oriented and individualized treatment plans for each of her clients.
She has trained and worked in different treatment centers for adolescents and young adults throughout the country, including McLean Hospital, in Massachusetts, at one of Duke University’s outpatient clinics where she worked with traumatized children, and at Wellesley College’s Stone Counseling Center, with young women in outpatient therapy.
She is trained as a Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills Coach and is well versed in adolescent development, family systems, CBT, psychodynamic theory, dual diagnosis and trauma, and multiple other theories and treatment models regarding addiction and other self-harm behaviors. She taught English Literature and Creative Writing at an emotional growth boarding school before receiving her Masters in Clinical Social Work from Boston College’s Graduate School of Social Work.
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