Lizette Garcia, LMFT

Lizette Garcia is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people manage stress, anxiety, eating concerns, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person. Lizette aims to make therapy practical and understandable for parents and adults feeling overwhelmed by life changes.

She uses a mix of approaches to match a person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is part of her work to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at where patterns began, and uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills for managing intense emotions.

Lizette brings four years of clinical experience in California and holds the LMFT credential, which indicates training in working with relationship and individual issues. Her practice focuses on building self-awareness and small, manageable changes that add up over time. She helps people notice patterns, practice different choices, and track progress between sessions.

Common themes she addresses include attachment issues, body image and self-love, guilt and shame, isolation, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people dealing with social anxiety and phobia and general coping during life transitions.

Therapy with Lizette generally combines talk work with concrete tools. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, and she works with clients to pick strategies that fit their daily life. People who want to understand themselves better and try new ways of coping may find her style a good fit.

How approaches like CBT and DBT work online

CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Online CBT sessions often include setting small experiments, homework between sessions, and practicing new skills in real situations. DBT emphasizes skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and strengthening relationships, with clear exercises for emotion regulation and mindfulness that translate well to video or text-based work.

Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust as you go. That means some sessions may focus on skill-building while others explore background and patterns to find what helps most.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to practice skills in real time.