My Approach
I’m Liz Yarock, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist working with adults and adolescents. I aim to create a warm and supportive space where you feel both understood and supported. I'm an active and collaborative therapist, offering thoughtful reflection and insight throughout our work together.
My therapeutic approach is rooted in a Psychodynamic and Relational framework and integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). My intention is to help you better understand patterns and life experiences, develop greater self-awareness and self-trust, and incorporate practical strategies tailored to your individual needs.
Compassion is at the heart of my practice, as I believe meaningful change and healing begin when we feel truly seen and supported.
Specialty Areas of Focus
Women's Issues
Women may navigate a range of experiences and challenges across different stages of life, including relationships, self-esteem, body image, pregnancy and postpartum adjustment, motherhood, and significant life transitions. Therapy may focus on understanding how these experiences intersect with identity, relationships, emotional well-being, and changing roles throughout different stages of life.
Anxiety
I help individuals experiencing a range of anxiety concerns, including chronic worry, panic attacks, health anxiety, social anxiety, and phobias. Therapy focuses on understanding the patterns and experiences that contribute to anxiety, while developing practical strategies to manage symptoms and respond differently to anxious thoughts, uncertainty, and distress.
Highly Sensitive Persons
Being highly sensitive can shape how you experience emotions, relationships, and the world around you, including emotional intensity, overstimulation, and sensitivity to your environment and others. Therapy can help you better understand and appreciate your sensitivity, establish boundaries, manage overstimulation, and navigate relationships and daily life in ways that feel more sustainable.
Relationships
I work with individuals navigating relationship concerns, including communication, boundaries, expressing needs, dating, family dynamics, and recurring interpersonal patterns. Therapy can provide space to better understand these patterns, explore how past experiences may shape current relationships, and develop greater clarity around what you want and need in your relationships with others.
Life Transitions
Significant life transitions, whether anticipated, welcomed, or unexpected, can involve a complex range of emotions and periods of adjustment. Therapy can offer a space to process and navigate changes related to relationships, career, parenthood, identity, relocation, and other meaningful shifts in one’s life.
Self-Esteem/Body Image
Challenges with self-esteem and body image can influence how you see yourself, relate to others, and move through everyday life. Therapy may focus on understanding patterns of self-criticism, comparison, self-doubt, and dissatisfaction with appearance, while developing a more balanced and compassionate relationship with oneself.
Perfectionism
Perfectionism can show up as high expectations, fear of making mistakes, self-criticism, overthinking, and feeling like what you do is never quite good enough. Therapy can help explore the patterns and experiences that contribute to perfectionism while developing more flexible expectations and a healthier relationship with achievement and success.
ADHD
I work with those experiencing ADHD and executive functioning challenges, including difficulties with focus, organization, time management, procrastination, motivation, and feeling overwhelmed. Therapy may also explore the broader impact of ADHD on self-esteem, relationships, school, work, and everyday functioning.
Ways to Work Together
Individual Therapy
An individualized and collaborative approach that combines insight-oriented exploration with practical strategies tailored to your needs.
Adolescent Therapy
A supportive space for adolescents to navigate anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, life transitions, and the pressures of adolescence.
Group Therapy
Specialized groups offer a supportive space to learn and practice effective coping skills while connecting with others who share similar experiences, fostering a greater sense of understanding, support, and connection.
Workshops
Presentations and workshops are tailored to the specific needs of organizations and their communities. Past topics have included:
- Mental Health Awareness Month: Mind-Body approaches to foster well-being
- Return to in-person office work: Effective strategies to support employees and reduce feelings of burnout and anxiety
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