Hi, my name is Liz Healey, and I thought I'd go out on a limb and tell you who I am without resorting to the pretense that someone else is writing this text. Don't worry: healthy boundaries are essential in life as well as in therapy, and I hold those with very conscious intention even if I don't talk about myself in the third person.
I began my career as a writer and editor, but eventually gravitated towards facilitating others through psychotherapy to explore the themes, characters, and conflicts within their own narratives. I graduated from NYU with a Master's Degree in Social Work, and worked my way from an LMSW to an LCSW with additional training in evidenced-based practices for trauma and EMDR that rendered me a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional designation in 2016. While still in graduate school, I did concurrent training in Poetry Therapy through Dr. Sherry Reiter's The Creative Righting Center and, more recently in 2018, I completed an intensive training in Maternal Mental Health at the Seleni Institute to hone the appropriate skills for working with Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders and Perinatal/Child Loss and Grief. In other words, my toolbox overflows, yet I constantly add to it so that I can best serve my clients. On the logistical side of things, I was in practice with the same social services agency, St. Francis Counseling Center, from 2011 until 2018, previously interned as a Substance Abuse Counselor for Dual Diagnosis clients with co-occurring Developmental Disabilities and/or Traumatic Brain Injuries at Access Community Health Center, where I also did Program Development, and I earned SIFI certification in 2018 from New York University while a Field Instructor during the 2017-2018 academic year, so I can now offer Supervision services. In 2017, I decided to strike out on my own and am currently exclusively in private practice. Please note that I am working remotely via Telehealth due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to practice only in this manner until I determine that it feels safe for everyone including myself to return. As a result of the pandemic, I also became a Registered Out-of-State Telehealth Provider in the State of Florida (see footer for compliance) in 2020.
As you can probably tell, I operate from a place of transparency and authenticity: my goal as a therapist is not to hold all the cards or to mystify the process. Rather, I safely and mindfully support you via my access to techniques, experience, and knowledge as you empower yourself to address targeted issues and patterns in your life. The relationship between us will provide the foundation for our work, just as the tools that I teach you and the experiential processes in which we engage will build the scaffolding, but you will be the ultimate architect of what is possible in therapy.
