Writing, teaching, and speaking on highly sensitive people, trauma, and the integration of IFS and EMDR.
Books
Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self: An Internal Family Systems Path to Healing and Wholeness
Trusting Your Highly Sensitive Self offers strategies based in Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and parts work to help you reconnect with your core self, celebrate your intuition, rebuild self-trust, and reclaim wholeness. You’ll discover the innate brilliance of your parts and how they responded to the original bind of being highly sensitive: I cannot be who I am, but I also cannot be what the world wants me to be.
With this compassionate guide, you learn to move past internalized negative messages, and cultivate the resilience and confidence needed to live your best life.
- Book Release Date: June 2026
- Available for Pre-Order from New Harbinger Publications, Inc.
- More about the book
IFS-Informed EMDR: Creative and Collaborative Approaches
Chapter: Highly Sensitive People and the Healing Presence of Self: IFS-EMDR Integration in Practice
IFS-Informed EMDR: Creative and Collaborative Approaches (Routledge, 2025) is the first multi-author volume exploring the integration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Humanistic Perspectives on Contemporary Counseling Issues
Chapter: Healing Trauma through Humanistic Connection, with Jane Webber, Ph.D.
- Published by Routledge in 2011
- Read the chapter
- Buy the parent volume
Academic and Professional Journals
Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development
- Elizabeth served on the Editorial Review Board from 2006 until 2012.
Articles on Counselor Wellness in Professional Counseling Journals
- Preventing Counselor Impairment: Vulnerability, Wellness, and Resilience
- Toward a Culture of Counselor Wellness — Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education, and Development (2007)
- What Individual Counselors Can Do to Sustain Wellness
Teaching
Drexel University — Professor, Behavioral Health Counseling Sciences Program, 2003–2008
- Group Counseling I
- Group Counseling II
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Counseling Theory and Practice — Assessment and Treatment Planning
Professional Trainings on Trauma & Resiliency
Elizabeth has been providing training programs to healthcare professionals since 1996, presenting at the local, regional, and national levels. Her programs educate helpers, provide forums for community-building, and creatively support the needs of helpers to nurture themselves as well as others.
Articles from the Newsletter Archive
- Creativity as Healing (May 2009)
- EMDR for Healing and Happiness (August 2009)
- Promoting Resiliency in Relationships (November 2009)
- Laughter Yoga
