CLIENT TESTIMONIALS

I’ve been working with Eliza for over a year, and I am so grateful for the discoveries I have come to understand, not only about myself but about how I relate to the world. Eliza understands the human body and the most holistic ways to heal the emotional, physical, and spiritual self (and the connection between the three). The work is sometimes not easy, but the ease to which Eliza’s voice and presence reassure me and guide me every week demonstrate a deep understanding of how she builds, fosters, and nurtures each relationship with her patient. I feel realigned to my dreams, and as a young adult, I’m so grateful to Eliza!

I’m 58, and I’d never talked to a therapist. Married 30 years, I‘d unconsciously relied on my patient, wise spouse to help see me through rough spots, lift me up when I needed it, hear me out when the voices in my head hungered for a good listener. That conversation had always been enough, it had always worked. But I'm at a turning point — business sold, children grown, parents gone. What does the world need from me now? What do I owe it? What brings me satisfaction and contentment? Am I loving well and hard enough? What am I really, truly good at? What I didn’t understand was that relying on my lifelong partner to help me find the answers to those questions wasn’t fair — and often not productive, for either of us — particularly after three decade together. Eliza’s helped me see myself more clearly, more honestly, at a time in my life when I needed this from an objective, professional listener and adviser. She’s pushed me, put a mirror up to me in a way few — outside my family — ever have. I’m glad I’d never talked to a therapist. It's important to who I am that I got this far on just the love and kindness of family and friends. But Eliza has opened my eyes and my heart, and prodded my mind, in ways that I can’t imagine anyone else could. 

“I have been seeing Eliza for a few years now and she is a corner stone in my life - I truly don’t know what I’d do without her. She has not only helped me understand some of my natural tendencies, but I’ve grown so much in the time I’ve been working with her. The biggest debt I owe to her is her role and support in my sobriety (I’ll have 4 years come June 2021.) We also work on weight loss, learning to set boundaries (as I am also a workaholic people pleaser) and she has helped me through so much past trauma that I previously buried away. She helps me navigate my relationships and confront uncomfortable things that aid in the betterment of myself. She has the perfect balance of challenging me to figure things out or reprioritize my responsibilities, but it’s always in a kind and encouraging way. She listens, gives advice, but also lets me find the answers by asking the right questions. She is professional, accommodating, and nurturing. I look forward to our sessions every week.”

Eliza,  is a compassionate and soulful caregiver, she helped me through a very difficult time in my life when I was experiencing debilitating anxiety. Her therapeutic approach is both informed and holistic, it helped alleviate and manage my anxiety.

Eliza has helped me on so many levels throughout the years. First and foremost, she guided me towards a path of recovery. I knew this road was there , yet always found it very daunting. With her wisdom and experience, she showed me this was the healthiest decision. I will be celebrating thirteen years of sobriety this summer. Eliza has always been a nurturing and unwavering sounding board in my life. She has gently guided me through some extremely dark times. Her support and breadth of holistic knowledge enriches my life in a way no other therapist has ever done before. Eliza pays close attention. She cares deeply about her clients. She has opened my eyes to a different way of approaching my life and I will always be extremely grateful to her for this. 

Over the past 11 years and counting, Eliza has been instrumental in helping me build roots and certain aspects of my life. She has helped me heal from problems such as family loss and family addiction. She helped me discover self-care, nutrition and wellness, and inspired me to become stronger and more independent. Eliza coached me throughout college, taught me how to build a network, and guides me through my career growth, relationships and marriage. She has helped me with issues focusing, anxiety and a recovery from an accident. She always inspires me and she’s always there. I am so grateful for the work we have been doing, and I highly suggest seeking her help if you’re in need of support through similar experiences.

I want to share my experience with Eliza Pertz with you.  I came to Eliza because I knew I had some “things” to unpack and work through.  This was not my first time in therapy, but this was the first time I really had someone invested in my wellbeing. Of course, we talked, and she challenged me to work through those difficult issues, memories, misbelieves and unhealthy habits.  She cried and laughed with me.  She was right there for all of it.  It’s not all warm chats and agreement.   She did call me out when I was looking to avoid or lie and, she will give you everything she has – every single time.  In working with Eliza over the years, I was able to fill the hole in my heart, have much healthier relationships in all parts of my life, take better care of myself  because she showed me how.  I took time to write this because Eliza is amazing, and she has the most beautiful heart.  She invests in her clients and she will change your life if you let her and you do the work.  

The one thing I often wonder is why Eliza devoted her entire adult professional life to helping people whose desperation and dysfunction often times make them turn on her? If you are considering therapy with Eliza, I hope you will also read the experience of our Family. My relationship with Eliza spans a decade, with sessions 1-3 times a week and continuing.  I can wholeheartedly say:  ELIZA IS A HIGHLY SKILLED PROFESSIONAL THERAPIST WHO ACHIEVED EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS WITH OUR FAMILY.      

Eliza is an excellent Therapist who challenges you in every session.  She does ask: “how did that make you feel?” ... but, what makes her unique is that she actually hears your reply and at some point in every session, she recommends a book, a professional, a support group, a lecture, some highly relevant resource.  I genuinely wanted help and Eliza recommended actual tools I could grab hold of.  In every single session, she throws an intellectual lifeline!  

Eliza can talk you off the ledge, while making you laugh about how effed-up things got...she dives right into the uncomfortable, painful and near impossible to process...the raw, ugly, bloody worst...but she also teaches you skills to forgive yourself, to clean your thoughts, diminish guilt.  Eliza has the knowledge, experience and unique skills to educate each Family member on their role in restoring sanity to a Family.

Addiction (all isms) is (are) (a) Vicious Family Disease/s.  Eliza lets you feel your emotions and will explore any subject, whether it is body brokers or swinging that mental baseball bat* (*sincere thanks to Maureen Cavanagh for her book “If You Love Me...!” and her support group, Magnolia New Beginnings).  I am grateful to Eliza for the library I have amassed over this last decade. Eliza introduced me to ALANON, Tuesday night lectures at Tribeca 12, family support weeks in Newport Beach, family support weeks in Laguna Beach, Sierra Tucson’s lifetime family membership...Wednesday night lectures and family groups at BlueCrest Recovery Center (NJ)(best program ever!)... She provided endless and substantive resources to enable all members of our Family to respond effectively and process life threatening situations. 

While her CV is astounding, these strong credentials pale in comparison to her actual skill/s, professionalism and effectiveness.  Eliza genuinely knows things and she gave our Family real tools to help us succeed.  Our Family shit-show over the last decade was somehow “normalized” by Eliza...She never gave up on our Family! At times we were insane...from denial to angry rabid vipers to crying puddles, she was there with us.  Whether it was Mamma Mia in pajamas... addiction-related psychotic breaks, countless ERs, too many funerals, freezing in a stream, hit by a car, homeless next to a dumpster...Eliza was always in my pocket, a text away...with her compendium of resources, always ready to impart the next positive step, one solid step at a time.  And, not just for one of us, but for all of us – she taught us to recognize and own/correct our contribution/s to the Family’s state of affairs.  TODAY...we are not only alive...we are a loving, functioning Family unit, capable of healthy living, identifying and feeling our emotions, able to use healthy communication skills, sharing our boundaries, able to identify co-dependent conduct and call it out...we understand how it feels to judge or shame.  The most comforting thought for me is that our Family is just one call  away from Eliza, the devoted, immensely knowledgeable, professional who, through her wisdom and patience, gave each of us the unique awareness and resources to save ourselves.

I wholeheartedly believe in Eliza’s unique intellectual approach.  She educates her patients on the family disease/s (isms), family dysfunction, addiction, co-dependency, boundaries, depression, grief, anxiety, fear, healthy living.  It’s hard work and I often look back on the last decade and realize...Oh! Right, that ray of light got in at year 5...OR...I didn’t fully understand  that boundary until year 8.  As the horror of active addiction fades, the interpersonal skills, emotional and self-awareness, inner strength… that Eliza helped develop continues to strengthen our Family.  Forever grateful,

I have been with Eliza for over 10 years. She has been a great help in times of serious life crisis, and she  has stuck in there with me through the mundane, which I see now is even as important.   She is caring, kind, empathetic when I I have needed it and pushes back on me when I need some honest and objective perspective. She can be very high level thinking, but I think most importantly she has given me concrete strategies and then held me accountable for living up to them. She has knowledge of such a wide variety of life skills and has helped me weave together many facets of my life , helping me create more balance and self awareness, bringing up ideas I would  not have thought of on my own in life planning and pushing my critical thinking, and ultimately  helping me make connections between all of those things. She is steadfast and persevering and I know at all times believes in my goodness as a person and connects to my individual unique needs.

I've been working with Eliza for almost 2 years and can't imagine doing therapy with anyone else now. She came highly recommended after several major events in my life left me needing more in terms of growth and processing. I've been in therapy for more than 2 decades, and Eliza's experience with talk therapy, addiction and women's issues has made her the best fit for me. Her easy going approach is just the right balance of compassionate and firm.