About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Carrero is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with ten years of experience who offers calm, practical help for common life stresses. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to create a warm, respectful space where people feel heard and understood. She helps with worry, low mood, anger, and major life changes.
She also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, attention differences, parenting strains, relationship tension, and career stress.
How Elizabeth works
Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Elizabeth uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person’s goals front and center. She also works with cognitive behavioral methods to identify unhelpful thinking and DBT skills for managing strong emotions.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are woven in when they fit the work. Her style is straightforward and practical. People can expect to talk about day-to-day patterns, practice new ways of coping, and set small goals that lead to change.
She draws on life context and family history to understand how problems developed. Elizabeth has worked in individual, group, and family settings over the past decade. She is based in Connecticut and offers sessions in both English and Spanish.
She emphasizes a collaborative relationship and aims to help people find more balance and calm in their daily lives.
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What Elizabeth works with
The areas below are the ones Elizabeth selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Connecticut |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online work
Elizabeth uses client-centered therapy to keep sessions focused on each person’s priorities and values. This approach starts by listening carefully, then shaping goals and responses around what the person identifies as most important. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort out feelings and choices.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts and actions affect mood and behavior. CBT provides concrete tools to change unhelpful thinking and build healthier routines, useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills are offered when emotional regulation and strong reactions are the main concerns; DBT teaches practical techniques for handling intense feelings and improving relationships.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. Elizabeth will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts the plan over time based on what helps.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexibility. Video allows full conversational cues, phone can be easier when bandwidth is low, and chat or messaging can work for quick check-ins or gradual sharing. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep progress moving forward.
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