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Liza Shaw, MA
Liza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist/Certified Breathworker, IPI Certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist and Ketamine Assisted Therapist in North Carolina. Liza started her private practice in 1999. Clients of Liza's are encouraged to move their lives and relationships beyond the limitations of the past, to breakthrough levels.
Liza has advanced training and over 25 years of experience specializing in high-conflict couples therapy; grief and loss; trauma recovery utilizing Internal Family Systems Therapy; Heart-Centered Hypnotherapy &Various Modalities of Breathwork; family therapy for treatment of addictions & codependency, and most recently, works as a Certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist -- Liza is trained in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and partners with a Ketamine Prescriber who provides an assessment and diagnosis, and then can determine if Ketamine would be an appropriate and perhaps helpful tool to utilize alongside of Psychotherapy (using the IFS Model during integration).
Working with this potent medicine has truly changed the way Liza sees "what's possible." After 25 years of working with couples, the progress she is seeing with couples who utilize Ketamine along with participating in psychedelic integration, has left Liza with so much hope for couples to transform their marriages!
"I cannot believe how deeply and soulfully I am witnessing couples connect! I am seeing Ketamine help clients get in touch with their authentic selves. which then seems to foster more honest, vulnerable, and loving communication with their partners. And experiencing the medicine together has a special impact on the relationship, as each gets to stand witness to the other's growth.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy can either be done in person at Liza's office, in person at the client's home (if applicable), on Zoom with Liza present, or on your own with a sober sitter. A 60-minute Integration session (in-person at the Wilmington office or by Zoom) is required to occur 1-2 days after the
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Liza works both in-person (in Wilmington, NC) and remotely, via HIPAA-compliant Zoom meetings.
As a Certified Tele-Mental Health Provider, Liza has perfected what she calls "the art of BEING THERE together" during her remote sessions. The experience combines all of the intimacy and connectedness of being in the same location, with the added benefit of the clients being able to stay at home or work! Tele-Therapy clients report excellent results with Liza. One stated, "Remote sessions feel remarkably the same as when I saw Liza in person. She really knows how to bridge the divide of space and time. It's as if we are in the same place."
Liza Shaw, MA
Liza is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist/Certified Breathworker, IPI Certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist and Ketamine Assisted Therapist in North Carolina. Liza started her private practice in 1999 in Hickory, NC. Liza built a thriving private practice that employed a total of 10 licensed therapists and associates throughout the years and made a huge difference to the couples, individuals, and families of Catawba County. In 2021, Liza closed her Hickory practice and moved to sunny Wilmington, NC! She operates her practice both remotely (using HIPAA Compliant Zoom) and in person in a downtown Wilmington therapy practice..
Clients of Liza's are encouraged to move their lives and relationships beyond the limitations of the past, to breakthrough levels. Her style is gentle, respectful and direct. Therapy with Liza is an interactive process. You will not just be getting the same old "How does that make you feel?" with this therapist. She pays attention to patterns, and instead of seeing through the lens that other people and circumstances outside of her client's control are the source of the client's problems, Liza teaches her clients how to see the part in their relationships that the client has power over, and then she supports them in changing their part of the pattern so that the relationship can shift to a whole new, much healthier pattern. She gets consistently high reviews from her clients.
Liza has advanced training and over 25 years of experience specializing in high-conflict couples therapy, grief and loss, trauma recovery incorporating Internal Family Systems Therapy, hypnosis and various types of breathwork. family therapy for treatment of addictions and codependency and most recently, works as a Certified Psychedelic Assisted Therapist and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
As a Certified Tele-Mental Health Provider, Liza has perfected what she calls "the art of BEING THERE together" during her remote sessions. The experience combines all of the intimacy and connectedness of being in the same location, with the added benefit of the clients being able to stay at home or work! Tele-Therapy clients report excellent results with Liza. One stated, "Remote sessions feel remarkably the same as when I saw Liza in person. She really knows how to bridge the divide of space and time. It's as if we are in the same place."
Liza is accepting new clients, however, there may be a 3 to 4 week wait to schedule your first appointment. Liza keeps a cancellation list so new clients may be able to get seen earlier.
"I consider it my personal mission to reduce the divorce rate in the United States, 1 couple at a time. But preventing divorce will only be successful if, in place of unfulfilling or chronically dysfunctional marriages, couples develop truly thriving marriages & deeply fulfilling relationships. Even in the most hopeless-seeming cases, couples can heal the damage from the past and move forward in a healthier way. Not all marriages can be saved, but when couples do the work to heal the past, their future can be happier, no matter what the outcome for the relationship. "
Liza takes a stand that all people deserve extraordinary lives, and she understands what it takes to help them achieve this. Liza specializes in Marital and Couples Therapy, as well as family and individual therapy. She possesses many years of training, has demonstrated a high level of competence with Marriage and Couples Therapy, values the institutions of marriage and life-long commitment, and is dedicated to helping marriages succeed, if at all possible.
In addition to providing Marriage, Family and Individual Therapy services, Liza also provides life coaching, advocacy services and facilitates retreats and workshops. From leading business executives to achieve goals they never thought possible, to leading breathwork and hypnosis retreats at music festivals in the southeast, to providing harm reduction and mental health crisis services to music venues, Liza enjoys contributing to her community. She also provides Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, a promising new form of individual and couples therapy.
Liza is also the Director of Marriage and Family Therapy Services. She received her Master's Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Appalachian State University in 1999 and began her private practice at that time. She also served as past-chairperson of the Public Relations Committee for the NCAMFT (North Carolina Association of Marriage and Family Therapy) from 2010-2012.
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