Meet The Therapist
Professional Background
I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC-D) and have been in this field for over 10 years after graduating with my Master’s in Mental Health Counseling in 2015. Within the past decade+, I have worked in community mental health, inpatient settings, K-12 schools, group private practice, and higher education. Throughout these different settings with such a variety of clients, I honed my therapeutic approach to focus on helping people enhance their ability to sit with discomfort and cope with life’s difficulties without having to constantly escape through avoidance or distractions.
I have training in mindfulness and somatic techniques, cognitive-behavioral skills (CBT), and am DBT informed (Dialectical Behavior Therapy). In general terms, these approaches compliment my theoretical orientation as I described above. Basically, my theoretical approach is the way I think about and conceptualize the therapeutic process, and the skills training I engage in helps to provide practical strategies to cope with distress, discover new perspectives, and enhance the mind-body connection.
Hi, I’m Liz.
A Personal Note
Part of the therapeutic relationship means knowing a little about me as we will be spending a lot of time together. I am a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman (she/her), and have a personal understanding of what it’s like to navigate a world that seems to be working against you. When entering college I knew right away that I wanted to study psychology and sociology because I have always been interested in understanding the unique experiences of an individual as well as the societal impact on how people learn to navigate the world.
Outside of work, I enjoy being with friends & loved ones and spending time with my extremely playful and cuddly cat. I am a coffee lover, find peace being in nature, and enjoy reading and hiking (being in the Hudson Valley, this is probably not surprising!).
If we seem like a good fit and you’d like to know more about potentially working together, I’d love to connect with you.