About Clariza
Clariza Scarlett Saint George is a licensed clinical social worker who has provided therapy in Illinois for over 10 years. She focuses on helping people manage strong emotions, recover from trauma, and navigate major life changes. Her work emphasizes respect for identity and a straightforward, compassionate way of talking about problems.
She draws from several practical approaches to tailor sessions to each person's needs. Sessions often include learning new skills for coping, noticing unhelpful patterns, and trying small changes that make daily life easier.
How Clariza works
Clariza aims to make therapy feel clear and doable, not overwhelming. Many people come for help with depression, bipolar symptoms, addictions, or problems with sleep and anger. She also supports concerns around eating, body image, intimacy-related issues, and working through grief.
Issues like ADHD, compassion fatigue, and chronic illness are part of her practice as well. Communication and relationships are a common focus. She helps people address commitment and control issues, improve communication, and work through abandonment or attachment concerns.
Clariza also has experience with BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture topics when those issues arise in therapy. Sessions mix evidence-based techniques and an individual-centered stance. Clients can expect direct, practical suggestions alongside space to process feelings.
Her goal is to help people build more stable routines, clearer boundaries, and greater self-compassion.
Clariza lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- 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
What Clariza works with
The areas below are the ones Clariza selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
How specific approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Online sessions can focus on small experiments and values-based goals to reduce stuck patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with concrete exercises and homework. Over video or messaging, CBT tools like thought records and behavioral experiments can be taught and reviewed to track change.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try strategies together, and adjust methods based on what works for the person. Clients and the therapist set priorities and pick techniques that fit the client's daily life and preferences.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and learning skills with visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick check-ins, skill reminders, and written reflection that can fit into a busy schedule.
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