About Lizette
Lizette Garcia is a licensed marriage and family therapist who helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, eating concerns, low self-esteem, or depression. She talks with clients who are facing big life changes and want clearer ways to cope and feel more in control.
Background and approach
She prefers a thoughtful, curious approach that looks at how past experiences shape current reactions. Sessions focus on understanding where behaviors come from and finding practical steps to change them.
That can mean working on coping skills, mood management, or addressing body image and attachment concerns. Her work includes helping people facing guilt, shame, isolation, social anxiety, and post-traumatic stress.
She also supports those wanting to build self-love and healthier relationships with themselves. Conversations blend looking back at patterns and trying new ways to handle difficult emotions.
Lizette uses several therapeutic approaches, including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, motivational interviewing, and narrative ideas. She tailors these tools to each person’s needs and preferences rather than using a single one-size-fits-all method.
With four years of clinical experience and licensure in California as an LMFT - licensed marriage and family therapist - she offers sessions in English. Lizette invites people who are ready to explore change to reach out and see if her style fits their goals.
How different approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s perspective. It helps people feel heard and supported while they make their own changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships, such as distress tolerance and emotion regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That means trying things, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together rather than sticking to one fixed route.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into daily life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging works well for brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options give flexibility for scheduling and different communication styles, helping people stay consistent with their work on stress, anxiety, eating concerns, and other goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English