About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Renteria is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in California. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to help people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, depression, anxiety, or life changes. She focuses on practical steps and steady support to help people feel more capable day to day.
Elizabeth draws on a client-centered style that keeps the person's goals in front. She pairs that with cognitive-behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Elizabeth works
She also uses attachment-focused ideas to look at how early relationships shape patterns that show up now. Her background includes a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington and a Master of Counseling from the University of La Verne. She has three years of clinical experience working with concerns such as trauma, grief, addiction, and compassion fatigue.
She also addresses relationship and family-origin issues, caregiver stress, immigration-related challenges, and ADHD-related struggles. Sessions emphasize clear, achievable steps and a warm, collaborative relationship. Elizabeth pays attention to cultural background and tries to build on each person’s strengths.
She blends practical skills with deeper conversations about meaning when that feels useful. People who reach out can expect a straightforward approach that balances problem-solving and understanding. Elizabeth aims to help clients build stronger coping skills, improve communication, and move toward goals at a pace that fits their life.
Elizabeth lists 9 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Elizabeth uses client-centered methods that keep the person's goals central, listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters most. This approach helps people set clear aims and try practical changes that fit daily life.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Attachment-based ideas are used to examine relationship patterns that affect trust, closeness, and emotional responses, which can be helpful for people dealing with abandonment, communication problems, or family-origin issues.
Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before, then adapt methods as therapy progresses. Together the client and therapist check in and shift focus when needed so the work stays relevant.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for in-depth work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching between visits. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to try different formats to see what works best.
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