About Maddisson
Maddisson Elizardo is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She uses straightforward conversation to help clients understand what is causing worry and to build day-to-day coping skills. Her style is warm and respectful, with an emphasis on practical steps clients can try between sessions.
She works with concerns such as addiction, trauma and abuse, depression, grief, and issues related to intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
Maddisson also supports people facing career changes, parenting strain, and compassion fatigue. She pays attention to how past attachments and life experiences shape current behavior and relationships. In sessions she combines several approaches to match each person’s needs.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns. Client-centered methods make space for a person’s priorities and pace. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and attachment-based ideas to explore values, acceptance, and relationship patterns.
She has seven years of professional experience and brings a practical focus to treatment planning. Maddisson tailors therapy to each individual and works with people to set realistic goals. Her aim is to help clients feel more functional and grounded in everyday life.
Conversations are collaborative and direct. She encourages small, measurable steps that add up to meaningful change. For people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety or life transitions, she offers steady support and concrete tools.
Therapeutic approaches used in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying what matters most. It helps people act in line with their values despite anxiety or discomfort. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches specific techniques to reduce worry and change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy examines how early relationships affect current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating to others.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Maddisson will collaborate with each person to choose or blend methods based on their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaboration means trying different tools and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can fit into a short break or help when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging support ongoing check-ins, brief coaching, or people who prefer written communication. Together these options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting it into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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