About Liz Varney, LICSW
Psychotherapist, Coach, Writer, and Spiritual Explorer
I am a licensed independent clinical social worker, spiritual guide, writer, and artist. I have been working with individual clients to support their health and healing since 2000.
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After years of frustration working in "the system," I took the leap to self-employment in 2010. This move has allowed me the freedom to invent, and continuously reinvent, a soulful work path that is reflective of what is most authentic to me at any given time. As I continue to grow and awaken, my offerings shift with the same flow keeping my work aligned with my inner truth.
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I love to work with other artists, writers, creatives, and intuitive souls to support and encourage their unique journeys and soulful missions as they, too, grow and awaken on their paths.
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 a very intentional 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 traditional 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.
Intuition, Spirituality, Creativity
After years of studying intuition by the way reiki, animal communication, mediumship, intuitive development and the Akashic Records - I came to conclude that there is no true separation between intuition and what I had been learning in my creative pursuits of visual arts, writing, and dance. These are all acts that require presence, observation, listening deeply, becoming highly inspired, and feeling the freedom to express yourself in the way that your "spirit" moves you.
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.
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​​While I have always valued writing (in all forms) as a self-reflective, self-knowing, and self-soothing process - but 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.