Therapist profile
Aliza Castro, LCSW
LCSW focusing on addiction and family concerns
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- Addictions
- Parenting
- CBT and mindfulness
About Aliza
Aliza Castro is a Connecticut Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 29 years of experience. She focuses on integrated behavioral health care for people facing substance use alongside mental health concerns. Her work also addresses adoption-related identity challenges and parenting stresses.
Castro uses a person-centered approach that helps people set concrete goals and build coping skills. Sessions tend to be nonjudgmental and practical. She guides clients toward clarity and motivation without pressuring fast change.
Her background includes long-term work with addiction and mood concerns. That experience shapes how she talks about relapse, triggers, and recovery planning. She also supports people navigating grief, workplace strain, and intimacy-related issues.
Therapeutic methods she uses include client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, and motivational interviewing. These methods are applied with attention to attachment and abandonment issues when relevant. She also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused ideas to address stress and daily coping.
People often bring concerns such as anxiety, depression, bipolar mood problems, ADHD, or compassion fatigue. Castro helps with relationship questions connected to family and parenting, and with process addictions like gambling or problematic sexual behavior. Her work aims to help clients identify small, usable steps that fit everyday life.
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients. Cost varies with location and uses a subscription that can be canceled at any time. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the online options button.
How sessions work
How her methods translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what matters to the client. It helps clarify values, priorities, and goals so sessions stay practical and person-focused. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thinking and behavior patterns. It offers concrete tools for anxiety, depression, mood regulation, and impulsivity by testing new responses and plans.Finding the right approach is part of early sessions. The therapist will work together with the client to choose which methods fit the client’s needs, goals, and daily life. That collaboration may mean trying a CBT skill for a few weeks or using motivational interviewing to build readiness for change.
Session format details should be confirmed before booking, as the biography does not list specific formats. In general, online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a weekly routine, allow shorter check-ins when time is tight, and reduce travel time. Expect practical, skills-focused conversations that can be adapted to your schedule and current priorities.
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Experience
29+ years
Listed in
Connecticut
Languages
English
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she work with?
She works with addiction and co-occurring mental health issues, plus related areas such as anxiety, depression, parenting, grief, and intimacy-related concerns.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is person-centered and goal directed, using nonjudgmental conversation and practical skill-building to help clients meet goals at their own pace.
How much experience does she have?
She has 29 years of clinical experience working in behavioral health and addiction treatment settings.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Connecticut LCSW and practices from Connecticut.
Does she work in languages other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the United States work with her?
She accepts international clients.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started with her practice?
Begin by selecting the online therapy options button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling a first session.
Details come from information the therapist supplied to BetterHelp. A license can be checked with the state board.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is in danger, use the crisis numbers.