Elizabeth Garibay, LPC

Elizabeth Garibay is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Texas who focuses on guiding people through complex emotional challenges with cultural awareness and practical strategies. She specializes in depression, anxiety, grief, and self-esteem concerns while also supporting those facing codependency and substance use issues. Drawing on experience with multicultural communities, she creates therapy that acknowledges how personal struggles intersect with cultural and systemic factors.

Fluent in English and Spanish, Elizabeth builds an inclusive space where clients can explore identity, relationships, and healing in the language they find most natural. Her approach blends empathy with evidence-based methods to help clients develop resilience, greater self-understanding, and clearer paths forward. She emphasizes honoring each person’s background and adapting interventions to fit individual values and life circumstances.

Elizabeth works collaboratively with clients, offering compassionate guidance and practical tools aimed at improving day-to-day functioning and long-term well-being. Her goal is to help people discover meaningful ways to cope with life transitions, restore balance after loss or trauma, and strengthen relationships and self-worth through steady, client-centered care.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps clients notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being controlled by them, and then take values-driven actions. It is often useful for anxiety, stress, and navigating life changes where acceptance and purposeful action matter.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thought and behavior patterns and replacing them with more adaptive skills. CBT is commonly used for depression, anxiety, sleep and eating concerns, and improving daily coping strategies.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes an empathic, nonjudgmental relationship in which the therapist follows the client's lead and supports self-discovery. This approach can help with self-esteem, relationship issues, grief, and multicultural concerns.

Finding the best approach is part of the therapeutic process. Elizabeth collaborates with each person to tailor techniques to their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting methods as trust and insight grow.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can happen by video call, over the phone, via live chat, or through text messaging - making it easier to fit support into busy schedules, manage transportation limitations, and maintain continuity of care during life transitions. Licensed professionals can adapt these formats to provide consistent, accessible support for ongoing progress.