About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Chavez is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor with 20 years in the mental health field. She has worked in settings such as intensive psychiatric hospitals, correctional facilities, substance treatment centers, and community counseling centers. Elizabeth keeps sessions conversational and focused on what a person needs in the moment.
She aims to help people feel better now while building skills to stay steadier over time. Elizabeth believes people are doing the best they can with the tools they have.
Background and approach
She listens to understand needs, strengths, fears, and values. Therapy is shaped around each person's life, goals, and pace. Sessions are collaborative rather than prescriptive.
Her approach draws on somatic practices alongside client-centered listening and cognitive tools. She uses skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy when they fit a person’s goals. Mindfulness and motivational strategies are available for people working through change.
Elizabeth has supported people facing trauma, addiction, grief, anxiety, and depression. She also works with concerns like parenting stress, sleep and eating issues, bipolar mood challenges, and compassion fatigue. Additional focus areas include attachment concerns, body image, codependency, and recovery from separation or loss.
Therapy can be delivered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules. Sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Conversations begin by matching on goals and preferences so work proceeds at a comfortable pace.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Somatic work pays attention to the body and physical sensations as part of healing. It can help people who feel stuck in their bodies after trauma or chronic stress by grounding awareness in bodily experience. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting conversation. The therapist follows the person's lead and helps them find their own solutions and direction.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and behavior change goals. Elizabeth often combines body-focused work with client-centered listening and cognitive skills to address both immediate distress and longer-term habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods to try first and will adapt as goals change. This is a joint process based on needs, preferences, and what feels most helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. These formats let people connect from home, fit sessions into busy schedules, and continue work between meetings. Licensed professionals can use these options to provide consistent, adaptable support that matches day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New Mexico
- Languages
- English