Liz received her Masters in Clinical Social Work from Boston College in 2013. During this time, she completed a nine-month internship at a comprehensive Dialectical Behavior Therapy Program at Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston. During this internship, Liz also developed and ran a CBT-E group for individuals with eating disorders. After graduation, Liz worked in a mental health clinic in Boston, where she developed and implemented a DBT program. Liz has been working in private practice since 2015, and has been providing Comprehensive DBT services and CBT ever since. In addition to her DBT expertise, Liz’s main clinical specialties are treating complex trauma and PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, anxiety, personality disorders, and depression. Liz’s Behavioral Tech DBT training was taught by Adam Payne, PhD, and Francheska Perepletchikova, PhD. Liz has also been intensively trained in DBT-Prolonged Exposure (DBT-PE) for trauma/PTSD with Melanie Harned, Ph.D, the treatment developer, and has also completed intensive training in Exposure and Response Prevention for OCD through UPenn.
Additionally, Liz has engaged in other advanced trainings such as Targeting Shame in Treatment with DBT and Compassion Focused Treatment with Shireen Rizvi PhD and Dennis Tirch PhD, Working with Emotion Dysregulation in Families: DBT with Parents, Couples, and Families with Alan Fruzzetti, PhD, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy training with Steven Hayes PhD. She has completed numerous other workshops, courses, and individual supervision in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Metacognitive Therapy, and DBT.
Liz has also completed training with Alan Fruzzetti, PhD and Aditi Vijay, PhD for providing DBT supervision and consultation for DBT therapists, and loves working with clinicians seeking consultation and supervision in providing comprehensive DBT!
Liz is a lifelong Equestrian, and has developed a DBT/Trauma program for BTC that includes equine interactions. Liz is currently enrolled in a post-graduate program at the University of Denver for Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy for licensed mental health professionals.
In Liz’s free time, she loves running, traveling, hiking up mountains or snowboarding down them, building mastery horseback riding and hanging out with her main mare Cori, and spending time with her family and her dog Peach.
Liz is licensed to practice in New Jersey, New York, and is additionally registered as a behavioral Telehealth provider in Florida and South Carolina.
NJ Licensed Clinical Social Worker: #44SC05809500
NY Licensed Clinical Social Worker: #096537
FL Telehealth Registration Number: TPSW2024
SC Telehealth Registration Number: #539 https://llr.sc.gov/Telehealth/socialwork.html