Elizabeth Chavez

My name is Jo and I appreciate you taking a look at my profile to consider if I might be a good match for what you need.
MY EXPERIENCE: I am an independently licensed counselor (LPCC) with over 20 years of experience in the mental health field. My career journey has placed me within:
Intensive Psychiatric Hospital settings, Correctional settings, Substance Treatment Centers, and Community Counseling Centers.

WHAT I’VE LEARNED: The common factor that everyone I have ever supported through my counseling services seems to have is that they just want to feel better now.
They also want to have the tools, insight, and motivation to keep feeling better and to keep making the choices that will help them to feel stable, safe, happy, content and engaged in life in a way that works for them.

MY APPROACH: I believe that every individual is doing the best they can in the moment in their lives. Sometimes help and support is needed to manage the stressors that life throws our way. My approach is very person-centered. When I meet with you, it’s a conversation. You know yourself. My job is to understand you: your needs, wants, desires, obstacles, strengths and growing edges, dreams, fears, challenges. How we work together depends on your needs and who you are as an individual.

MY SPECIALITIES:
• Trauma/Grief
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Substance Use
• Life Transitions
• Existential Crisis

WAYS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER: Some of the modalities I am able to use include:
• CBT
• DBT
• Somatic Therapy
• Relational/Systems Therapy
• Mindfulness
• Solution-Focused Therapy
• Narrative Therapy
• Motivational Therapy