About Luz
Luz Lavado is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, person-focused methods to help people manage stress and anxiety. She speaks English and Spanish and works from New Jersey. Luz keeps conversations straightforward and respectful to make it easier to talk about hard things.
She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and mindfulness to shape sessions. That means sessions often include noticing unhelpful thoughts, trying small behavior changes, and building values-based goals.
Background and approach
She adapts pacing so sessions fit each person's needs and comfort level. Luz has nine years of clinical experience working with concerns like depression, grief, relationship strain, eating concerns, and trauma. She also supports people dealing with ADHD, body image, chronic illness, and issues around attachment and abandonment.
Her background gives her familiarity with a wide range of everyday struggles people bring to therapy. In sessions she aims to listen without judgment and work alongside people to set clear, doable goals. Conversations can include skills practice, problem-solving, and reflecting on what matters most.
Luz focuses on small steps that add up to meaningful change over time. She offers multiple session formats including video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. That variety helps people fit therapy into busy schedules and keep momentum between meetings.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and decisions about relationships or life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like worry or low mood. It often includes exercises and homework to practice between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy teaches attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and increase calm, which pairs well with ACT and CBT for anxiety and stress.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, comfort level, and daily life. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, and decisions about focus and tools are made together.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and more natural conversation. Phone sessions can be quicker check-ins or helpful when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support shorter updates, skill practice, or writing through thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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