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.

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 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. 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, drawing from cognitive and mindfulness based frameworks such as CBT and ACT, trauma informed modalities including parts work and brainspotting, relational and interpersonal approaches, and mind body practices. I pull from these fluidly and responsively rather than rigidly, always in service of what this particular woman needs in this particular moment. The relationship itself is always at the center of the work.

Licensure

Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker, Massachusetts

Master of Social Work, Boston College