Elizabeth Chavez , LPCC

Elizabeth Chavez is an LPCC with 20 years of experience in the mental health field. She practices in New Mexico and brings practical help to people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, grief, and other life changes. Her style is conversational and down-to-earth. She meets people where they are and focuses on what will make day-to-day life easier and more manageable.

Elizabeth’s background includes work in intensive psychiatric hospitals, correctional settings, substance treatment centers, and community counseling centers. Those experiences shaped a straightforward approach that balances empathy with concrete tools. She listens for strengths, patterns, and barriers so sessions can move toward useful steps rather than staying stuck in theory.

Her work is person-centered. Sessions look like conversations where the client’s needs guide the plan. She draws on methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical skills when those fit the situation, and uses mindfulness and existential ideas to help people find meaning and steady themselves through change.

Elizabeth often helps people with intimacy-related concerns, self-esteem and body image, parenting strain, ADHD, and the lasting effects of trauma and loss. She also supports people dealing with bipolar symptoms, sleep and eating struggles, and compassion fatigue from caregiving roles.

People who do best with her tend to want both understanding and practical strategies. She helps clients develop tools and insight to manage intense feelings, improve communication, and make clearer choices that support better daily functioning.

Approaches you can use online with Elizabeth

Elizabeth frequently uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. CBT is practical and often includes homework between sessions to try small changes.

She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills to help manage intense emotions and improve distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT skills are useful for people who want tools for emotion regulation and clearer communication in relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth treats therapy as a collaboration and will help figure out which methods fit best based on a person’s goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts plans as progress is made and invites feedback about what feels most helpful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions can replicate a face-to-face conversation, phone calls are helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while still working with licensed professionals.