About Clariza
Clariza Scarlett Saint George is an Illinois licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who face anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, and relationship struggles. Her goal is to create an environment where people feel seen and respected as they work toward change.
She uses simple, practical tools to help people manage strong emotions and daily stress. Sessions often include learning coping skills, noticing patterns that get in the way, and practicing small changes that fit real life.
Background and approach
She pays attention to identity and cultural background when shaping treatment plans. Clariza draws from several approaches to match the work to the person. She blends acceptance and commitment techniques with cognitive-behavioral strategies and emotion-focused ideas.
This mix helps with things like obsessive worries, grief, compulsive behaviors, and low self-worth. People can expect straightforward conversation and collaborative goal-setting. Clariza emphasizes clear steps and homework that feel doable between sessions.
She also helps people sort through relationship and intimacy issues, career stress, and the emotional impacts of chronic illness. Her practice offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Sessions are conducted in English and follow Illinois licensing standards.
To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and still take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, avoidance, and making purposeful life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce symptoms like low mood and compulsive behaviors. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) centers on understanding emotions and improving emotional connection within relationships or self-understanding.Clariza treats approach selection as a team effort. She will talk with each person about goals, try techniques together, and adjust the plan based on what helps. This collaborative process aims to find methods that feel right and work in everyday situations.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can support shorter check-ins and homework prompts. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and travel while keeping consistent progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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