About Liz Varney, LICSW
Psychotherapist, Coach, Writer, and Spiritual Explorer
I am a licensed independent clinical social worker, spiritual practitioner, writer, and artist. I have been working with individual clients to support their health and healing since 2000.
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When it comes to my career, I embrace my Aries nature and often trail blaze my own path!
After years of frustration working in "the system," I became self-employed which has allowed me to invent, re-invent, and craft a soulful work path that is reflective of what is most relevant to me, my clients, and to the greater spiritual whole.
I combine psychology, spirituality, intuition, and creativity to help you identify what makes a fulfilling and inspired life.
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I love to work with other artists, writers, creative and intuitive souls to support and encourage their unique journeys and soulful missions.
My Vocational History
My social work experiences began in 2000 and have ranged from child welfare, treatment of major mental illness, to addictions treatment - often times working with folks with co-occurring mental illness and substance dependency who struggle with food and housing instability. I received my Master's of Social Work from Boston College in 2005.
Once I earned my LICSW, I started working as an individual psychotherapist for children and adults in 2007 and opened my private psychotherapy practice in 2009.
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In 2010, I felt ready to become a full-time self-employed psychotherapist and that is truly when my real journey of discovery started! Due to my intense burn-out from working in the field, I started seeking avenues for my own self-healing. This began my clear and determined exploration of energy, intuition, spirituality, and most currently, art as a healing modality.
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While I still hold a license, I no longer work as a clinical psychotherapist who diagnoses, keeps clinical notes, or bills insurance. I provide coaching that is therapeutic, supportive, spiritual, creative and that is aligned with your soulful authenticity.
My Spirituality
As a spiritual explorer, I have studied:
Reiki
Clinical use of essential oils
Intuitive development and intuitive readings​
Mediumship and connections with the afterlife
Tarot and Oracle card readings
The Akashic Records and the soul's journey
Working with guides, spiritual entities, and the divine feminine
Channeled writing​
Paganism, folk healing, and witchcraft
I use my intuition in my daily life as much as I use my intellect, my eyes, or my ears. I believe intuition is our sixth sense and is God/Goddess given gift to us that help us navigate our lives.
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I consider my spirituality to be eclectic and open. While the concept of “soul” is a mainstay in my belief systems, I am happy to work with people with differing beliefs or people who do not know what their beliefs are yet.
My Creativity
While working with my intuition to assist my clients, I realized intuition comes from the same place that creativity, writing, art, and the artistic process originate from.
Intuition and art both require me to move my ego aside in order to allow for divine inspiration and to work within a natural, creative, and intuitive flow. Over the last several years beginning with COVID, I reclaimed my inner artist – a part of me that was left behind when I started my traditional career path.
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​​While I have always valued writing (in all forms) as a self-reflective, self-knowing, and self-soothing process it was not until I began Stanford's Novel Writing Certificate program, that I felt the power of having others read my writing and provide thoughtful, reflective feedback. The benefits, healing, and reflection I have received from mindful readers of my writing inspired me to offer this same powerful healing to you through the Write of Passage Therapeutic Writing Program.
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​After years of resistance and shedding societal beliefs about what it means to be an artist, I can now comfortably call myself a creator, a visual artist, and writer.
I regularly engage in figure drawing, multi-media art, fiction writing, spiritually-guided writing practices (channeled writing), creative nonfiction, as well as writing self-help material.
I am primarily self-taught and have found joy in NOT knowing how to do art! It turns out, that "not knowing" is the best way to embrace the creative process and truly be divinely inspired. ​​
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