Liz Cerven

PhD, LCPC

I am a licensed clinical professional counselor, doctoral researcher, educator, writer, and creative. My work is grounded in a relational approach to therapy that invites slowing down, paying close attention, and listening to how we make meaning of our lives through the body, emotions, relationships, and environment.

I approach therapy as a collaborative process that moves at a pace shaped by consent, attention, and what feels possible in the moment.

Grief is not something to move past. It is often a way we come into deeper contact with what matters. Grief appears in many forms, including death and loss, as well as identity shifts, relational changes, and quieter experiences of ending and becoming. In my work, grief is not treated as something to resolve, but as something to stay close to long enough that new forms of understanding can emerge.

I listen for what emerges in language, in silence, and in the body, trusting that meaning unfolds gradually rather than all at once.

I am especially drawn to working with people who are navigating change, feeling between versions of themselves, or seeking a more honest relationship with their inner and outer worlds.

Our inner lives are shaped by relationships, histories, and the systems we move through, and I hold these as inseparable from lived experience. My work is informed by feminist and queer ways of thinking that attend to how bodies and identities are shaped within cultural and social contexts, while remaining attentive to what is felt and known from within.

Liminal Space Therapy reflects my focus on the in-between places where something is no longer what it was but not yet fully formed into what it is becoming. Many people come to therapy during periods of uncertainty or transition.

In these spaces, therapy is not about arriving quickly at answers. It is about developing a different relationship to experience, one that is more spacious, attentive, and less driven by urgency. Over time, this can create room for new ways of understanding yourself and moving through the world.

My hope is that therapy offers a place where you do not have to perform certainty or already know who you are in order to begin. A place where your experience can be met with care, and where something more honest and livable can take shape.