Liz Rhea, LMSW

Looking for a space to show up fully and explore how to identify your own needs, let alone meet them? Maybe you’re questioning or walking away from religion, wondering what the hell life is going to look like. Or, perhaps you’re exploring and expanding your queerness and looking for a space to navigate that together. Been there. You deserve a space to voice your needs and feel at home in your body. I’m Liz, a queer-identified therapist that specializes in providing holistic and affirming care to queer, trans, and gender-expansive folks, as well as folks navigating religious trauma and faith deconstruction. I work with individuals (~16+ y.o.) and partners, including ethical non-monogamous partners and/or multiple partners, navigating trauma, life transitions, intimacy, and more. I prioritize creating a space that feels welcoming, radical, and like you can show up fully as yourself (take your shoes off, grab some fidget toys, eat candy, you do you!). I love getting to build deep and beautiful therapeutic relationships with clients, ones that feel brave, affirming, and like I’m on your team (because I am!). I believe therapy is a space where we get to collaborate together, process what might be coming up for you, and explore your innate wisdom. I enjoy working with folks who are innate people pleasers, feel like they’ve spent their years parenting their parents or siblings, might be experiencing a life transition that feels overwhelming or all-consuming, or are curious about the ways their lived experiences impact who they are and how they engage with the world. I deeply value partnering with folks who are exploring their identities (maybe for the first time ever!), and I believe in creating a space for both religious and non-religious folks who have experienced harm at the hands of the church. My lived experiences include navigating religious trauma and deconstructing/recovering from conservative evangelicalism (including purity culture!), as well as exploring my own identity, and these experiences inform my work as a therapist and allow me to create braver spaces for my clients. I operate from a core belief: you are the expert of your own experience. This core belief informs how I show up in the therapy space, always ensuring that your innate wisdom is at the heart of our work. I pull from holistic approaches to therapy, including attachment-based, emotion-focused, strengths-based, and trauma-focused, while employing a social justice, feminist, intersectional, and systemic framework.