About Clariza
Clariza Scarlett Saint George is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with ten years of experience. She works with people who feel stuck by strong emotions, past trauma, or life changes. Her focus includes LGBTQ concerns, addiction, mood disorders, and issues around intimacy and self-worth.
Her sessions aim to be affirming and culturally aware. She listens for what matters to each person and helps them find practical steps forward.
Background and approach
Conversations often cover coping skills, boundary-setting, and ways to rebuild trust in oneself. Clariza uses a mix of well-known approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on mindfulness, emotion-focused work, and strategies that change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
These tools are used to manage symptoms and build everyday routines that feel doable. She also addresses more specific challenges such as eating concerns, grief, caregiver stress, chronic pain, and relationship communication problems. Clariza pays attention to how identity and background shape a person’s experience.
That helps her tailor the work to fit real life demands. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She helps people set clear goals and checks in on progress.
Many clients leave feeling better able to handle hard moments and move toward the life they want.
How evidence-based approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting pulled into them, then take small steps toward a life that matters to them. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and issues with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting patterns between thoughts, feelings, and actions, and then testing new ways of responding to reduce distress and improve routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Clariza will talk with each person about goals, what has helped before, and what feels doable. She uses a mix of methods so the plan fits the person rather than forcing one method on everyone. That collaborative process helps prioritize what to try first and how to track progress.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face-to-face from wherever they are. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a camera feels like too much. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or shorter conversations between full sessions. These options provide flexibility while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English