Liz Yarock, LCSW
I’m Liz Yarock, a psychotherapist working with adults and adolescents. I strive to create a warm and compassionate space where you feel both understood and supported. I'm an active and collaborative therapist, offering thoughtful reflection and deeper 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's mental health is shaped by experiences and challenges across different stages of life, including relationships, self-esteem, body image, pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, motherhood, and significant life transitions. These aspects of women's lives often intersect with identity, relationships, emotional well-being, and evolving roles and responsibilities.
Anxiety
Anxiety presents in many forms, 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 often involves experiencing emotions, relationships, and the world around you with greater intensity, including sensitivity to your environment, overstimulation, and a heightened awareness of others. Therapy offers an opportunity to better understand and appreciate your sensitivity, establish boundaries, manage emotional intensity, and navigate relationships and daily life in ways that feel more sustainable.
Relationships
Relationship challenges may arise around 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 offers 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. This work often involves 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 provides space to better understand the patterns and experiences that contribute to perfectionism, develop more flexible expectations, and build a healthier relationship with achievement and success.
ADHD
ADHD and executive functioning challenges can include 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
Schedule a preliminary consultation call.
Have some questions first? You can always reach out to me online, or email me directly at [email protected].