Lissette Collazo Maza, LCSW

Lissette Collazo Maza is a Florida-based licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, parenting strain, and depression. She speaks English and Spanish and brings 22 years of hands-on experience to conversations about everyday struggles and life changes.

Her approach is straightforward. She creates a calm space where people can name what they are feeling and try new ways of coping. Sessions focus on practical steps that fit each person's life. She aims to reduce overwhelm and build small habits that add up.

Lissette often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and client-centered techniques to guide work in session. That combination helps people notice thought patterns, clarify values, and practice skills between meetings. She also uses elements from Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy when it suits a person's goals.

She works with concerns such as trauma and abuse, sleep difficulties, career changes, ADHD-related struggles, and parenting stress. Additional areas include attachment and abandonment issues, codependency, communication and control problems, and coping with divorce or separation.

Conversations also address life purpose, midlife shifts, guilt and shame, and panic symptoms. Lissette focuses on small, achievable changes that help people feel more grounded and able to move forward.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, helps people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, panic symptoms, mood challenges, and sleep habits by breaking problems into manageable steps.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, ACT, focuses on clarifying personal values and practicing actions that matter despite uncomfortable feelings. It can help with stress, life changes, and motivation when people want a values-based direction.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, listening stance where the person sets the pace and topics. This approach helps people feel heard and respected while they name goals and try changes.

Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Online sessions are available by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls suit sessions that need visual cues and conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a shorter check-in, and messaging lets people write between meetings. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.