ELIZA ALBRIGHT, MSW, CSWA

Mental Health Therapist

I practice somatic-based therapy techniques and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to promote clients’ distress tolerance, insight, self-compassion, confidence, and curiosity about the challenges, opportunities, dilemmas, and decisions they face. Somatic work and IFS are experiential. Both allow us to build context for understanding the connection between activating events, thoughts, feelings, beliefs, emotions, and behaviors. I’ve found, both as a client and practitioner, that these practices often strengthen our sense of connection to ourselves, each other, and the world. 

My clinical experience has involved work with immigrants and refugees, youth in psychiatric residential treatment, bereaved children and families, veterans, individuals in suicidal crisis, foster youth, the LGBTQIA2S+ community, sexual assault survivors, those living with chronic pain, and survivors of natural disasters.  I hold a Masters of Social Work with a concentration in Mental Health and Trauma from the University of Denver and a Bachelor of Science in Child, Youth, and Family Studies from Portland State University. I am currently receiving training toward certification as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a body-oriented therapeutic model for treating symptoms of trauma