Lizette Garcia, LMFT

Lizette Garcia is an LMFT (Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist) with four years of clinical experience in California. She works with people struggling with stress, anxiety, eating concerns, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. She also focuses on attachment issues, body image, shame and guilt, isolation, post-traumatic stress, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia.

She uses a psychodynamic perspective to look at where behaviors and patterns come from. Lizette pays attention to past relationships and repeated patterns to help people understand their reactions. She combines that with practical methods so sessions do not feel only theoretical.

Her approach includes client-centered work that keeps the person's goals central. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) ideas may be introduced for managing intense emotions and changing unhelpful thinking or behaviors. Motivational Interviewing and Narrative Therapy are also part of her toolkit when helping people shift how they view themselves and their stories.

Sessions are framed around clear goals and steady pacing. Conversations include exploring the origins of feelings, practicing new ways of coping, and trying small experiments between sessions. Lizette encourages people who want to increase self-awareness, manage strong emotions, or regain a sense of control to consider this kind of psychotherapy.

To start, she asks people to reflect on what they want to change and what gets in the way. She invites a short initial match process to see if the work and the therapist feel like a practical fit before scheduling a first session.

How her approaches translate to online therapy