About Elizaveta
Elizaveta (Liza) Patchen uses a client-centered approach combined with practical techniques from cognitive behavioral and mindfulness therapies. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Florida with nine years of experience. Liza speaks English and Russian and offers sessions to international clients as well.
Her work focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, grief, and low mood. Liza aims to create a straightforward environment where people can talk about what matters to them.
Background and approach
She helps clients identify patterns that make life harder and practices small, manageable changes. Sessions often include skills from CBT to reframe thoughts and mindfulness exercises to reduce reactivity. Her background includes inpatient and outpatient settings, working with older adults, people facing substance use challenges, and those with severe mental illness.
That range shaped a practical style that focuses on what helps day to day. She also supports people dealing with caregiving strain, chronic pain or illness, body image and eating concerns, and compassion fatigue. When trauma or abuse are part of the story, she uses trauma-focused methods alongside DBT skills to improve emotion regulation and coping.
Liza emphasizes finding or redefining purpose when life feels empty or chaotic. She blends short-term strategies with attention to deeper, lasting change. People can expect clear, calm guidance and tools they can try between sessions.
Liza offers video, phone, chat, and text-based formats to fit different schedules and needs.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's goals. Online sessions give space to share concerns and shape goals together, with the therapist adjusting pacing and focus to fit the person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It works well over video or phone because homework, thought tracking, and behavioral experiments can be assigned and reviewed between meetings. Mindfulness-based practices help people notice stress responses and return attention to the present. Short guided exercises can be led in a live session or sent as recordings for practice during the week. Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods to each person's needs, goals, and preferences rather than assuming one path fits everyone. Online therapy offers flexibility for busy schedules and different life situations. Video calls enable face-to-face interaction, phone sessions require less bandwidth, live chat can work for quick check-ins, and text messaging allows ongoing, brief support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel while still working on meaningful change.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Russian