PhD, LCPC
I'm a therapist, researcher, educator, and writer. I'm interested in how we make sense of being alive in our bodies, our relationships, our identities, and the worlds we move through.
I've been a therapist for a long time, and I'm still curious about this work. I don't think people are problems to solve. We're shaped by what we've lived through, what we've inherited, who we've loved, what we've lost, and the possibilities we can imagine for ourselves.
Therapy with me tends to involve paying attention. To what you're saying and what you're not. To what your body is doing. To the stories you've learned about yourself and the places those stories stop fitting.
We move at a pace shaped by consent, attention, and what feels possible.
Elizabeth (Liz) Cerven
The things I keep coming back to
Bodies. Gender and sexuality. Relationships. Desire and pleasure. Grief, death, and the many kinds of endings we live through. What happens when the life, identity, relationship, or understanding of yourself you've known begins to change.
Grief has a particular place in my work. I don't think grief is something we simply move past. Death and loss bring grief, of course, but so can changing identities, relationships, bodies, dreams, and versions of ourselves.
Sometimes grief is the way we discover what mattered.
My work is informed by feminist and queer ways of thinking. I don't understand any of us as existing separately from the relationships, histories, cultures, and systems that shape our lives. And within all of that, I'm interested in the intimate experience of being a person: what you feel, what you know, what your body tells you, and what you want.
A liminal space is an in-between.
Something is no longer quite what it was, but whatever comes next hasn't fully taken shape.
I find myself returning to these spaces again and again: grief and transition, questions of gender and sexuality, changing relationships, bodies that don't behave according to our plans, identities that refuse easy categories, endings that are also beginnings.
They can be disorienting places to inhabit.
They can also be alive with possibility.
Liminal Space Therapy grew from my belief that we don't always need to rush out of the in-between. Sometimes there is something worth noticing there.
Why Liminal Space?
My work beyond the therapy room
Therapy is one part of my work.
I'm also a researcher and writer. My work explores gender, embodiment, sexuality, grief, liberation, and the ways bodies come to know themselves. My doctoral research centered the experiences of genderqueer people engaged in somatic therapy and asked what healing might mean beyond becoming more coherent, legible, or easily understood.
I teach, supervise, and consult with other clinicians, and I'm interested in creating spaces where therapists can think more deeply about the political, relational, and embodied dimensions of our work.
And I write, not only academically, but because writing is one of the ways I make sense of the questions I keep carrying.
A few practical things
I'm a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) and hold a PhD. I work with teens and adults individually, as well as with people navigating relationships together. I also provide clinical supervision, professional consultation, and gender-affirming consultation through Beyond the Letter.
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