Elizabeth Renteria , LCSW

Elizabeth Renteria is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) who combines clinical training with practical, culturally informed care to support individuals and families facing life stressors. She earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington in Seattle and a Master of Counseling from the University of La Verne. With three years of experience, she has worked with people dealing with depression, anxiety, trauma, and other challenges that affect everyday functioning.

Her practice emphasizes a client-centered stance, using strength-based and culturally relevant methods alongside cognitive approaches to promote coping and resilience. Elizabeth prioritizes a warm, collaborative therapeutic relationship that centers the client?s goals and lived experience, and she focuses on practical strategies that can be applied between sessions to improve well-being. As an LCSW, she brings specialized social work training to complex personal and family issues while attending to each person?s individual context.

Elizabeth welcomes the opportunity to speak with new clients and explore how tailored interventions and collaborative problem-solving can support healing and growth in their lives.

Therapeutic Approaches and Remote Care

Elizabeth Renteria draws on client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide remote work. Client-centered therapy focuses on creating an accepting, nonjudgmental space where the client?s priorities and values shape the work; this approach helps when clients need validation, improved self-understanding, and collaborative goal setting. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a practical, skills-based approach that examines thoughts, feelings, and behaviors to develop coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress-related difficulties. Attachment-based ideas are often integrated when relationship patterns, abandonment concerns, or family-of-origin issues are central to a client?s struggles, helping clients explore how early relational experiences influence present-day connections.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Elizabeth works collaboratively with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and adapts interventions as therapy progresses. This shared decision-making helps tailor treatment to what feels most useful and achievable.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and to maintain continuity during life transitions. These options allow clients to access licensed professionals from different settings while preserving the collaborative, solution-focused work central to Elizabeth?s practice.