About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Martinez is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with 11 years of professional experience supporting people navigating stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and major life transitions. She draws on evidence-based methods to help clients untangle overwhelming emotions and build practical skills for everyday coping.
Background and approach
Her LCSW credential is held in Indiana (IN LCSW 34010030A) and Illinois (IL LCSW 149020387). Elizabeth emphasizes a collaborative, nonjudgmental therapeutic relationship where clients are invited to explore difficult feelings and patterns at their own pace.
She aims to empower individuals to make meaningful changes by combining structured interventions with compassionate listening. In sessions she blends acceptance-oriented strategies, cognitive reframing, mindfulness, and motivational techniques to match the needs and goals presented.
Clients can expect a focus on concrete strategies for managing symptoms alongside space to process past hurt and life transitions. Elizabeth frames therapy as a partnership, supporting each person as they move toward greater resilience and clearer decision-making about their next steps.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping clients clarify their values, accept difficult internal experiences, and commit to actions that lead to a more meaningful life; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) centers on identifying and shifting unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors through structured exercises, which can reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression and improve daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to help manage intense emotions and improve relationships.Choosing the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Elizabeth works with clients to explore which methods fit their goals, preferences, and presenting concerns, adjusting techniques as the work progresses to ensure the therapeutic plan remains responsive and useful.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it possible to access consistent support from licensed professionals without rearranging major parts of life. These formats allow sessions to be scheduled around work and family obligations and provide multiple ways to stay connected between appointments when different forms of communication are helpful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Indiana
- Languages
- English