Liz Lerner

Liz Goll Lerner is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Psychotherapist and Life Coach in Washington, DC.  She works with adults across the lifespan who are experiencing difficulty or emotional pain and want to work through it to live a more joyful life. Liz is also a relationship coach and counselor with a unique and positive approach to helping individuals and couples navigate the process of divorce and general conflict within their relationships. Additionally, she is adept at helping clients reduce stress related to transition and change of all kinds, including life transitions, career change and even political change.

In her one-on-one counseling and coaching sessions, Liz uses a variety of proven and creative methods to help her clients view themselves and their situation clearly, helping them gain insight, connect with their emotions, make peace with the past and more, in order to create the growth and change they desire. Much of her work involves the connection between mind and body and she uses a variety of life-enhancing mind-body techniques such as meditation, cognitive work and mindfulness techniques which empowers individuals to consciously choose how they want to be in the world and frees them to live in the present.

Related to her work with couples, Liz is a Level-2 Gottman-certified therapist who helps partners at all stages of their relationship, which includes premarital, general couples counseling and divorce coaching. Using a variety of techniques she helps couples examine unproductive patterns of interaction and replace them with more helpful habits.

Her Divorce Well and Thrive® Coaching helps divorcing couples divorce “differently” by creating a new vision for themselves as individuals and as a couple, and by employing strategic planning to help them separate with ease and grace.
Liz has over 30 years of experience in the psychology field, and she looks forward to working with you at her practice in Chevy Chase DC.