About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Lachendro is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical steps that help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. Her style is calm and direct, aimed at helping someone feel steadier and more able to cope with daily demands.
She uses a client-centered approach, which means sessions begin with what matters most to the individual. She combines that with tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to address unhelpful thinking patterns.
Background and approach
Mindfulness work and acceptance-based ideas are woven in when they fit the goals. Sessions often involve setting small, achievable goals and practicing skills between appointments. Elizabeth pays attention to how life roles, relationships, and identity affect mood and behavior.
She also supports people facing grief, intimacy questions, body image concerns, and substance use issues. She has experience helping people with workplace stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD-related challenges, and complex reactions after loss or abuse. Her approach is collaborative and practical, with an emphasis on what clients can try right away.
Elizabeth offers care in English and accepts international clients. Her practice includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Prospective clients who want to begin can complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It supports actions that match a person’s values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and issues like addiction and shame.) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with more balanced thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, low mood, and sleep or eating concerns.) Mindfulness Therapy builds simple attention and awareness skills to reduce reactivity and improve focus, which can be useful for stress, anger, and compassion fatigue.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 plan can change as therapy progresses and new needs emerge.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow for longer sessions with face-to-face interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit short check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options offer flexibility for scheduling, varied session lengths, and ways to practice skills in everyday settings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English