About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Lindell Mendez is a Florida licensed mental health counselor with six years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship strain, addiction, grief, and trauma. Her approach is warm and practical, focused on small, doable changes rather than jargon.
Before offering online services she managed clinical residential treatment programs and served as a lead counselor for group and individual work. That background means she is used to coordinating care and guiding people through difficult transitions.
Background and approach
She draws on experience working with mood disorders, substance concerns, and trauma-related issues. Sessions are interactive and strengths-based. She uses a person-centered foundation to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Clients can expect a mix of talk, skills practice, and reflective exercises aimed at building self-understanding and coping tools. Elizabeth brings a compassion-focused lens to her work. She emphasizes improving self-love and reducing self-criticism while teaching concrete strategies for everyday problems.
Cognitive and behavioral techniques are used alongside mindfulness and skills drawn from dialectical approaches. Her style is direct but supportive, helping people set achievable goals and track progress. She works with adults who want practical steps to manage symptoms, improve relationships, and find direction after life changes.
Elizabeth aims to make therapy understandable and useful from the first sessions.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s experience and goals, so sessions focus on what matters most to the client and adapt to their pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, and teaches hands-on strategies for managing mood, anxiety, and attention challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when stress or intense feelings interfere with daily life.Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust based on what feels helpful. That process helps shape a plan that fits the person’s needs and preferences rather than forcing a single method.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video works well for full sessions and skill demonstrations, phone calls use less bandwidth for straightforward check-ins, live chat or text can support short updates or reminders between sessions, and messaging can be useful for brief coaching or tracking progress. These options give flexibility for people juggling work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent and practical.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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