Services
Individual & Group
Addiction Therapy
Understand And Heal Addictive Behaviors
Whether it is alcohol, substance abuse or a particular compulsive behavior that is controlling your life, addiction hurts. It hurts you and the people around you. Trying to hide or minimize your addictive behaviors leads to other complications. Therapy leads to healing the roots of the behavior, establishing and managing routines to reduce and eliminate relapses, and overall personal growth to move beyond the addiction to a life worth living.
You Are More Than Your Addiction
Addictions can start off small, and quickly grow beyond our control. No one wants to admit they need help managing an addiction, but addiction is so much more than the substance or activity that is being abused.
With Addiction Treatment, we work to identify the underlying causes of your addiction, recognize the feelings and situations that may lead to relapses, and use evidence-based techniques to heal and to build life patterns that create lasting, satisfying change.
Liz has successfully treated clients with a variety of addictions, both chemical addictions and process addictions, including:
- alcohol abuse
- compulsive spending
- drug abuse
- out of control sexual behaviors
Anxiety
Stress, Chronic Worry, and Fears
Intimacy / Sex Addiction
Behaviors which can harm relationships
Couples Therapy
Real and lasting change for couples
Personality Disorders
Difficulties in interacting with others
Testimonials
Competent, caring and compassionate therapist. I had a long history of family Abuse and anxiety... I'm glad to say they are much better because of Liz.
-Matt L.
"After retirement it was time to finally face who I was, and Liz is helping me do that. She really gets me and 'hears' me. You are never too old to change."
-Donna T.
"Liz is a bright, knowledgeable and compassionate professional. I would highly recommend Liz to anyone who is looking for quality care."
-Kate S.
As seen in CURBED - The Best Therapists in New York 2021
Though recommending a therapist should be as common as passing on an excellent upholsterer, there is still a stigma to tending to one’s mental health. Another complication: Sometimes the person you most trust for a recommendation isn’t someone with whom you want to share a therapist. So we decided to ask 31 notable New Yorkers about their therapists and are publishing their referrals in their own words
Jewelry designer Pamela Love: “Elizabeth Lacy has helped me tremendously with anxiety and coping with the effects of childhood trauma. The progress I have made with her in only one year has been far greater than all the work I have put in over the past decade.”
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Find Balance and Stability in Your Life Patterns with Schema Therapy. Helping you to heal for lasting change.
If you have found that you have suffered from emotional pain or had a series of negative events happen on and off as a pattern throughout your life, schema therapy will help.
Schema therapy uncovers and corrects distorted patterns - it helps to break the old links. It is deeper emotional and cognitive work where we will identify your specific schemas and coping modes, helping you to heal them for lasting change. Schema Therapy gets to the root of the life patterns.