Elizabeth Chavez, LPCC

Elizabeth Chavez is an LPCC with 20 years in the mental health field. She practices in New Mexico and brings long experience from hospitals, correctional settings, substance treatment centers, and community counseling programs.

She keeps sessions conversational and person-centered. She listens first to understand a person's needs, strengths, fears, and goals. Then she helps people find practical steps they can try between sessions.

Elizabeth often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to help people change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to build coping skills and emotional awareness. Her work can include tools from dialectical behavior approaches when emotion regulation is a focus.

She helps with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, substance use, grief, and challenges around intimacy and relationships. She also supports people dealing with parenting strain, sleep or eating issues, bipolar mood concerns, ADHD, and life transitions.

Clients who choose her typically want clear strategies and a steady, listening presence. Sessions aim to build skills, insight, and small changes that add up over time. Elizabeth adapts the pace and techniques to what each person needs.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Elizabeth uses cognitive behavioral therapy ideas to help identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and try small behavior changes that make daily life easier. CBT techniques are practical and often focus on problems people bring right now, such as anxiety, sleep trouble, or difficulty with mood.

She also relies on client-centered methods that make sessions conversational and focused on each person's experience. This approach centers the client's priorities and builds a collaborative plan for change. When intense emotions or self-regulation are a challenge, elements of dialectical behavior therapy can provide concrete skills for managing strong feelings and improving communication.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That collaboration guides the pace and which tools are used.

Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and skill practice. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging let someone send updates or get brief support between sessions. These options give flexibility for fitting therapy into work, family, and daily routines.