About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Martinez is a licensed clinical social worker with 11 years of experience in Illinois. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, trauma, abuse, depression, or major life changes. Her style is grounded and practical; she aims to make the first step feel manageable for anyone who is nervous about reaching out.
She creates a calm space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what each person needs. Elizabeth listens for patterns that keep problems stuck and works with clients to try different, doable strategies. Her work draws on approaches that include acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing.
That mix helps with both emotional symptoms and everyday struggles like communication, commitment concerns, and coping after loss or separation. Elizabeth also supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment issues, caregiver stress, aging concerns, dissociation, and complex situations such as co-morbidity or recovery after disasters. She explains options plainly and checks in often about what is or isn’t helping.
People who want straightforward guidance and steady support tend to do well with her approach. She helps clients build skills they can use between sessions and makes adjustments when life changes affect what’s needed next.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, so they can focus on what matters most. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, and big life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful habits and reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling difficult relationships.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will talk with each person about their needs and goals and try methods that fit their situation and preferences. The plan can change over time as progress is made or new concerns arise, and she checks in regularly to make sure the approach remains useful.
Online sessions let people connect from wherever they are with a licensed professional. Video calls offer a face-to-face feel, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports shorter or ongoing exchanges between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or health constraints while keeping the focus on skill building and steady support.
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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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