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About My Clients
I work with a range of folks. One thing we in common is a desire to see change and engage in meaningful work quickly. You may express a desire to make a major change in your life, or perhaps an unexpected change just occurred and you are looking for support and processing. Perhaps you have navigated your life thus far while dragging along anxiety, depression, or trauma and you desire a change. I am here for all of it. If you like a blend of structure and open discovery, I am a good fit for you.
My Background and Approach
Welcome - I am Dr. Eliza Kienitz, a psychologist, who uses evidence-based approaches, compassion, and a can-do attitude to work with you to meet your goals. I feel honored to do this work and I hope you feel my commitment to helping you from the moment we start our work together. If you are reading this, you have already engaged in some tough and deep work. My role is to utilize the years of training and experience I have to enable you to feel more free to be you. I work with a range of folks. Common themes are burnout, life transitions, anxiety and worry, perfectionism, depression, and past trauma. I hold a Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology with an internship and post-doc through the VA. My evidence based training includes treatments for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Grief, Sleep, and Substance Use. I offer flexible, no pressure scheduling to fit your lifestyle. While I do not accept most insurance, I can take an HSA/FSA and offer a superbill for you to submit for reimbursement.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe that therapy is for everyone. In therapy with me, we look at more than your own set of cognitions, beliefs, and emotions. We also look at context: your cultural context, work context, and family context. It is also important to place ourselves in this unique time of life and how all of those variables impact who you are and how you are able to express yourself. We often get trapped by unhelpful frameworks - some that are external and some that we have internalized from our childhoods or experiences. I believe that we all have the capacity to step back and look at the frameworks we are in, to choose if they are helpful to us, and, if not, to choose something else. This is hard work, no doubt. Change does not come easily but it can make things easier once we get the process started. I believe that there is no single right path, our job is to find your path given the best navigation tools available. I am committed to doing this together.