About Lizandra
Lizandra Montero is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people handle stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and depression. She offers calm, practical support when life changes feel overwhelming. Lizandra speaks English and Spanish and practices from Florida as an LCSW.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. Sessions focus on concrete tools to manage symptoms and improve daily functioning. She draws on approaches like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, motivational interviewing, solution-focused steps, and trauma-focused care to match each person's needs.
Background and approach
Lizandra pays close attention to how past attachments and relationships shape current feelings. She also addresses caregiver stress, body image concerns, grief around separation or divorce, and the intense shame or guilt that can follow painful events. Her work includes supporting people coping with panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and mood difficulties.
Practical change is a common theme in sessions. Clients and the therapist set clear goals together and try small experiments between meetings to test new ways of coping. Conversations move at a steady pace and aim to build skills that fit everyday life.
With three years of clinical experience, Lizandra blends empathy with problem-solving. She helps people find clearer direction, reconnect to their values, and reduce the hold that fear and overwhelm can have on daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and values. The therapist listens deeply and helps people find their own solutions, which works well for stress, identity, and life-purpose questions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. Sessions teach practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking patterns and to reduce symptoms of anxiety, panic, and depression.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about change. It uses gentle questions to explore ambivalence and to strengthen personal motivation for practical steps forward.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk through options, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what the person finds most helpful. Goals and preferences guide the process rather than a fixed method.
Online therapy with this practice uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit many lifestyles. Video is useful for deeper conversations and teaching exercises, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging work well for brief check-ins, support between sessions, or when someone prefers not to be on camera. These formats make it easier to keep momentum and to fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish