About Lyza

I knew from a young age that I wanted to do this kind of work. I was the one people came to. The listener. The one who wanted to understand not just what happened but why, what it meant, and what it felt like from the inside.

That curiosity has led me through a career of clinical work with women, mothers, and families navigating some of life's most demanding seasons. I have worked with countless women through pregnancy, postpartum, and the profound identity shifts that motherhood brings. I know firsthand how transformative and disorienting that season can be, how much it asks of a woman, and how little space there is to say honestly that it is hard.

I have also walked alongside women carrying anxiety, uncertainty, and the quiet grief of a life that does not look the way they planned. Women wondering if the future they imagined is still possible. Women who have spent so long holding everything together that they have lost track of themselves entirely.

I have also witnessed how profoundly relationships shift during these seasons. The partnership that feels strained after a baby arrives. The siblings who cannot agree on what their aging parent needs. The woman who has spent a lifetime saying yes and is only now learning she is allowed to say no. Helping women navigate these relationship changes, communicate more clearly, and find their voice in the relationships that matter most is some of the most meaningful work I do.

Along the way my clinical path included time in elder care social work, which deepened my understanding of loss, family dynamics, and the particular weight that falls on women who are holding the needs of aging parents alongside everything else.

When I became a therapist I felt, for the first time, that I was exactly where I was supposed to be. The work of truly hearing someone, of helping them understand themselves more clearly and find their way back to themselves, felt like the most meaningful thing I had ever done.

I work with women because I understand the particular weight of what women carry. The invisible labor. The slow erosion of self inside roles that demand everything. The grief of a life that does not look the way you planned. And the profound courage it takes to slow down, look honestly at your life, and decide you want something different.

I feel genuinely privileged to do this work. Every single day.

Training and Approach

I hold a Master of Social Work from Boston College and am a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker in Massachusetts.

My approach is integrative, which means I draw from a range of frameworks and modalities depending on what each woman brings and what she needs in a given moment. I do not believe one approach fits every person or every season of life.

For women navigating perinatal and maternal mental health, I draw from Interpersonal Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, mindfulness based approaches, and attachment informed work. These frameworks are among the most well supported for postpartum depression, perinatal anxiety, and the profound identity shifts that accompany new motherhood.

For women carrying trauma, I work from an Internal Family Systems informed perspective as well as Brainspotting, both of which support healing at a deeper level than talk therapy alone can reach.

For women navigating anxiety, life transitions, relationships, and the ongoing work of understanding themselves more clearly, I draw from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, relational and interpersonal approaches, mind body practices, and a practical skills oriented lens that supports problem solving, decision making, and forward movement.

For women navigating caregiver fatigue, burnout, and the invisible weight of holding everything together, I bring a holistic, practical and skills oriented lens to our work. This includes boundary setting, assertiveness training, self-advocacy, and the concrete tools needed to find a more sustainable balance. We also look honestly at lifestyle, the rhythms of daily life that either deplete or restore, including rest, movement, nutrition, simplifying obligations, asking for help, and learning to say no without guilt. So much of this work is about helping women reconnect with their own needs, learn to ask for what they require, and build a life that does not run entirely on depletion and sacrifice.

Across all of this the relationship itself is always at the center. Everything else is in service of that.

Licensure

Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Massachusetts

Master of Social Work, Boston College