About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Lindell Mendez is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with six years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, or life changes. Her work also includes support for addiction recovery, trauma and abuse, grief, and questions about identity and intimacy.
She uses a strengths-based, interactive approach. Sessions are person-centered and shaped around each client’s needs and goals. She draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
She also incorporates elements of dialectical behavior work and humanistic, client-centered care. Elizabeth brings experience from residential treatment leadership and roles as a lead counselor in group and individual settings. That background informs practical strategies for coping, emotion regulation, and relapse prevention.
She has worked with people facing mood disorders, personality concerns, and histories of physical or emotional trauma. Her style is compassionate and focused on building self-compassion and resilience. She aims to help clients notice strengths, practice new skills, and take small steps toward a life they value.
Sessions tend to be collaborative and goal-oriented, with practical tools to use between meetings. Elizabeth offers care in English and practices in Florida as an LMHC. She frames therapy as a team effort and works with each person to find approaches that fit their life and preferences.
How therapeutic approaches fit with online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experiences without judgment. It helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around their values and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thought patterns and teaches concrete exercises to change thoughts and behavior, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to match techniques to a client's goals, preferences, and daily routines. Together they review what helps, adjust strategies, and try different skills until a good fit is found.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging can be used for shorter check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it possible to fit sessions into work breaks, care schedules, or different time zones while maintaining a consistent therapeutic plan.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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