About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Chavez is an NM LPCC with 20 years in mental health care. She has worked in psychiatric hospitals, correctional settings, substance treatment centers, and community counseling programs. Elizabeth focuses on helping people feel better now and build skills to stay well over time.
She approaches counseling as a conversation. Elizabeth starts by listening to what matters most to each person. She asks about strengths, obstacles, and daily life so she can tailor support to real needs.
How Elizabeth works
Sessions tend to emphasize practical steps alongside emotional understanding. Elizabeth often uses client-centered and mindfulness ideas to help people feel heard and grounded. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and on dialectical behavior strategies to manage intense emotions.
The mix depends on the person and the goals they bring. People come to Elizabeth for many concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, grief, and parenting strain. She also supports people dealing with relationship challenges, identity questions, body image, and life transitions.
Her experience includes work with mood disorders, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Sessions can move at a steady, practical pace. Elizabeth aims to teach tools that fit into daily life, such as breathing and grounding practices, simple behavior changes, and clearer communication skills.
She helps people set achievable steps and checks progress as they go.
Elizabeth lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
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.
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
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Mexico |
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Online support options
Approaches and how online therapy works
Elizabeth commonly draws on client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy in online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting conversation so the person feels understood and can identify what matters to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete steps to change thoughts and routines that cause distress. Dialectical behavior therapy offers skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked previously, then suggest ways to combine approaches. Plans are adjusted over time as progress and needs become clearer.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for in-depth conversations and skill practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and text or live chat allow quick check-ins or shorter sessions between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work when life requires remote access.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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