About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Martinez is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Illinois with 11 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and major life changes. She uses clear language and a practical style so conversations stay grounded and useful.
Clients find space to talk about hard feelings without judgment. Elizabeth aims to make sessions feel calm and straightforward. She helps people name what matters to them and figure out small steps they can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Her work draws on approaches like acceptance and commitment techniques, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Those tools are used to teach coping skills, change unhelpful thinking patterns, and build steadier emotional responses.
Elizabeth pays attention to how past hurts affect daily life, and she supports people who are dealing with grief, separation, caregiver stress, guilt, shame, and attachment concerns. She also helps with practical relationship and communication struggles as they relate to emotional health. Sessions are intended to be collaborative.
Elizabeth listens first, then helps set goals and plans that fit each person’s life. She guides people toward clearer choices and gradual change over time.
Therapeutic approaches delivered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on helping people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can help with anxiety, stress, and making meaningful changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to shift patterns that keep distress going. It is commonly used for anxiety and depression. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will listen to your concerns, discuss options, and together decide which tools fit your goals and daily life. This is a collaborative process that can change as needs evolve.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and situations. Video calls let you use face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options aim to make therapy easier to attend and to keep progress moving between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English
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