About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Chavez is an LPCC with over 20 years in the mental health field. She has worked in intensive psychiatric hospitals, correctional settings, substance treatment centers, and community counseling centers. She writes plainly and listens carefully to help people feel better now while building skills to stay well over time.
Her style is conversational and person-centered. Sessions start with what matters most to the individual. She asks about strengths, obstacles, fears, and goals, then helps shape a plan that fits daily life.
Background and approach
Therapy is tailored to each person's needs rather than a one-size-fits-all program. She combines practical skills with reflective work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful ones.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds emotion regulation and coping tools when feelings feel overwhelming. Mindfulness practices are used to build awareness and calm. Elizabeth brings experience from varied clinical environments.
That background informs how she helps people manage stress, addiction, trauma, grief, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. She also supports issues such as body image, codependency, parenting strain, anger, bipolar challenges, and ADHD-related struggles. In sessions she focuses on small, usable steps.
Clients work on coping strategies, communication skills, and choices that match their values. The aim is clearer decision making and more stability in day-to-day life. She offers multiple ways to connect for ongoing care.
People can choose video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit their routines.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Elizabeth often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice the thoughts that drive stress and behavior, then try different ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms. CBT works well for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and some patterns related to addiction.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. DBT offers concrete tools for handling intense feelings and improving relationships in day-to-day life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. That means mixing skills practice, reflective conversation, and motivational work until a useful plan emerges.
Online therapy makes those options flexible. Video calls let people speak face-to-face when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be easier on slow internet or for short check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or when writing helps organize thoughts. These formats help fit therapy into work, school, or busy family routines while keeping the focus on practical change.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English