About Luz
Luz Lavado uses a practical, person-centered style to help people who are stressed, anxious, or struggling with low self-esteem. She is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of experience and works in New Jersey. Luz speaks English and Spanish and focuses on everyday problems like relationships, grief, depression, and difficulties with eating and attention.
Her sessions aim to be direct and respectful. She listens first, then helps set small, realistic goals.
How Luz works
Conversations and activities are tailored to each person’s needs rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Luz emphasizes building skills that can be used between sessions. Luz draws on acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice their values and take steps toward them, and she uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
Mindfulness practices and dialectical behavior strategies are also part of her approach when they fit a person’s goals. She has supported people through issues connected to trauma, family stress, body image, chronic illness, and life transitions like divorce or aging. Luz also works with concerns such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, codependency, and communication problems.
Sessions can be adapted to language preference, and her approach aims to be compassionate while focusing on practical change. She helps people identify what matters to them and build the skills to move forward.
Luz lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Luz works with
The areas below are the ones Luz selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New Jersey |
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Online support options
How Luz’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to accept difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and other symptoms. Mindfulness practices teach simple attention and breathing skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm. Finding the right mix of tools is part of the work. Luz will collaborate with each person to choose approaches based on their goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. This means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together. Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and in-session practice of skills. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or be used when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to check in between sessions, share brief updates, and get short, focused support when needed. These options help make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into everyday life.Start online instead of waiting
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