About Clariza
Clariza Scarlett Saint George is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with ten years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, trauma, and relationship or identity-related struggles. Her work centers on practical steps and emotional support rather than labels or quick fixes.
She creates an affirming space for people from diverse backgrounds, including those who identify as LGBT. Sessions aim to respect each person’s identity and lived experience while addressing immediate concerns like sleep problems, anger, or substance use.
Background and approach
Clariza keeps language direct and accessible to make the work feel doable. Her approach blends several methods to match what each person needs. She uses strategies from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thoughts and from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to shape values-driven actions.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are offered when emotion regulation and distress tolerance are priorities. In a typical session Clariza listens, helps clarify goals, and offers small, concrete steps to try between meetings. She also works on communication issues, self-esteem, and coping with grief or major life changes.
The focus is on what will make daily life more manageable. Clariza offers several online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the site, so people can begin when it fits their routine.
Therapeutic approaches that fit online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small, meaningful steps toward them while learning to live with difficult feelings. It can help people who struggle with attention, motivation, or ongoing worry by linking action to what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches practical techniques to change them, which is often useful for depression, anxiety, sleep issues, and some ADHD-related challenges. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete emotion regulation and distress-tolerance skills for people needing tools to manage intense feelings and improve communication.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily challenges, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they will try methods that fit those goals and adjust the plan as needed based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a face-to-face feel and full sessions, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can support shorter check-ins, and text messaging is handy for brief reflections or between-session coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep continuity during transitions.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- 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
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