About Maddisson
Maddisson Elizardo welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or worn down by stress, anxiety, grief, addiction, or relationship pain. She practices as an LPC in Texas and helps people who are navigating life changes, low self-esteem, or difficulties with intimacy and boundaries. Her style is direct and compassionate, aimed at making sessions feel useful from the start.
Maddisson frames therapy around what matters to each person. She listens first, then helps set small, realistic goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical tools and clearer thinking so people can manage symptoms and make decisions that match their values. Her work draws on a mix of approaches so care fits the individual. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and behavioral steps to change patterns.
She also uses client-centered techniques to create a supportive space and attachment-based ideas to understand relationship patterns. Maddisson has seven years of professional experience and practices in Texas as a licensed professional counselor, LPC. She has supported people dealing with trauma, addictions, depression, bipolar concerns, and a wide range of life stressors.
She also addresses concerns like body image, chronic illness, codependency, and compassion fatigue. People who choose her often want clear skills plus a respectful, nonjudgmental collaboration. She adapts conversations and plans to each person’s needs and goals.
The focus is on steady progress and on building tools that help outside of sessions.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting driven by them. It focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small actions that move someone toward a meaningful life, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical steps to challenge unhelpful thinking and build new habits, which can help with anxiety, mood changes, and coping with stress.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores patterns in relationships and how early experiences shape trust and closeness. This approach is useful when intimacy, communication, or recurring relationship issues are part of the concern.
Finding the right approach is part of how this therapist works. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they try different strategies and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different situations. Video calls work well for in-depth conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging offer flexibility for quick updates or between-session support. These options let people fit therapy into busy schedules and continue work from different locations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English