About Aliza
Aliza Castro is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 29 years of experience. She provides integrated behavioral health support for people facing substance use and co-occurring mental health concerns. Her work emphasizes listening, collaboration, and practical steps people can use right away.
She keeps sessions informal and focused. Conversations aim to identify goals, build coping skills, and reduce stress. She uses straightforward tools and helps people find motivation at their own pace.
Background and approach
Aliza draws on client-centered work to shape care around each person's needs. She also uses cognitive behavioral methods to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking patterns. Mindfulness practices are offered to improve coping with anxiety and strong emotions.
She brings focused experience with addictions, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and ADHD. Other areas she supports include grief, intimacy-related challenges, workplace stress, parenting strain, and issues tied to adoption and attachment. Her background includes long-term work with process and substance addictions.
Sessions balance compassion and clear direction. People can expect a nonjudgmental tone and steps they can try between meetings. Aliza emphasizes practical change while respecting each person’s timing.
Her Connecticut practice centers on helping people find clarity and steady progress. She works with clients to set realistic goals and develop skills that fit everyday life.
How Aliza’s Methods Work Well Online
Client-centered work focuses on the person, not a fixed plan. The therapist listens, reflects what she hears, and helps people set their own goals. This approach helps when someone wants practical, personalized support for anxiety, addiction, or life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches simple skills to notice thoughts and change unhelpful patterns. CBT is useful for managing anxiety, mood difficulties, and impulse-driven behaviors by giving concrete strategies to practice between sessions.
Mindfulness Therapy introduces brief attention and breathing exercises to reduce stress and improve emotion regulation. These practices are easy to learn and can be used during anxious moments or when cravings emerge.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what feels most helpful. Clients are invited to share preferences and feedback so the plan fits their needs.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow full conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging make short check-ins or quick coaching easier between appointments. These options help people fit therapy into work, caregiving, and busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English
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