About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Chavez is an LPCC with 20 years in the mental health field. She practices in New Mexico and draws on broad experience from hospitals, correctional settings, substance treatment centers, and community counseling programs. Her style is conversational and down-to-earth, focused on helping people feel better now and develop tools to stay that way.
She begins by listening closely to what a person says about their needs and goals. Sessions are person-centered and shaped by each individual's strengths and limits.
Background and approach
She works to understand the obstacles and supports that affect daily life so practical steps can be tried between meetings. Her experience includes work with trauma and grief, depression, anxiety, substance use, life transitions, and existential concerns. Elizabeth also helps people facing stress, relationship strain, parenting pressures, grief, and issues around self-esteem and body image.
She brings familiarity with a wide range of challenges that often overlap and compound one another. Therapy blends a conversational, client-centered stance with evidence-based tools such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior skills. Mindfulness practices and motivational approaches are also used when they fit a person's needs.
The goal is to build short-term relief while teaching skills that support longer-term stability. Elizabeth aims to meet people where they are and collaborate on realistic plans. She focuses on clear, manageable steps so progress can be felt between sessions.
For someone seeking practical strategies and steady support, her approach balances empathy with concrete skills.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Elizabeth often uses client-centered work that focuses on what matters most to the person in front of her. This approach centers the client's priorities and lets sessions follow the concerns the person brings, whether that's grief, anxiety, or relationship strain.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT offers concrete techniques to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors, useful for anxiety, depression, and some eating or sleeping problems.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. Elizabeth will talk with the client about goals, try techniques that fit those goals, and adjust as progress is made. The plan evolves based on needs, preferences, and what proves helpful in practice.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for full conversations and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or messaging can fit into a busy day or offer quick touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to work on anxiety, phobias, stress, and coping skills without rearranging a full day.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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