About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Lindell Mendez is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with six years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, addictions, and trauma. She also supports those dealing with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, career strain, ADHD, body image, and LGBT-related concerns.
Her style is interactive and strengths-based. She centers sessions on the person in front of her and uses compassion to help people build self-love and resilience.
How Elizabeth works
Sessions are adapted to each individual instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan. She has held roles as a residential treatment facility manager and lead counselor in both group and individual therapy. That background means she is familiar with intensive care settings and ongoing outpatient work.
Her experience includes working with people who have faced physical trauma or emotional abuse. Elizabeth draws on cognitive behavioral tools to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. She also uses dialectical behavior strategies for emotion regulation and client-centered ideas to keep the work grounded in each person’s goals.
Mindfulness and existential perspectives inform conversations about meaning, values, and daily coping. People choose her when they want practical steps and emotional support. She aims to empower clients to develop stronger coping skills and clearer direction.
The work focuses on manageable changes that fit into everyday life.
Elizabeth lists 6 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on treating the person as an individual and building a trusting, respectful relationship. It helps when someone needs a listening space and guidance shaped around their personal goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches people to spot unhelpful thoughts and test them with actions and experiments; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and behavior change. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for handling strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening interpersonal effectiveness.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best, adjusting techniques as needs and goals change. Together they set clear, achievable steps and check progress along the way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction when that helps. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow frequent brief connections and quick reflections between longer sessions, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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