About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Chavez is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 20 years in the mental health field. She practices in New Mexico and brings experience from hospital, correctional, and substance treatment settings. Elizabeth writes in a straightforward way and focuses on helping people feel better now while building tools to stay well.
Her work starts with a conversation. She listens to what matters to each person and learns their strengths, worries, and goals.
Background and approach
She aims to tailor sessions to the individual rather than follow a one-size-fits-all plan. That means practical steps and techniques are mixed with space to talk and reflect. Elizabeth commonly helps people managing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, substance use, and life transitions.
She also addresses issues such as self-esteem, relationship struggles, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes supporting people after trauma and during major life changes. Her style blends client-centered listening with structured tools.
She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for emotion regulation. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing help people build steady habits and commitment to change. Sessions focus on concrete skills, clearer choices, and step-by-step plans that fit daily life.
Elizabeth works with each person to find the pace and approach that feel right. She helps people move from short-term relief to longer-term stability.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-centered therapy means sessions begin with the person and their priorities. The therapist listens, asks questions, and partners with the client to set goals and choose what to try. This approach helps when someone needs time to be heard and to figure out what matters most.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses clear steps and exercises to change unhelpful thinking and build better coping habits. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress management.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships. DBT teaches practical tools like distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and better interpersonal communication. Those skills can help with mood swings, anger, and overwhelming stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they pick techniques and adjust them as progress happens, making the plan fit the person’s life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversations and skill practice. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for short updates, tracking progress, or getting brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to use tools consistently.
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What this therapist 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
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