Finding purpose and joy after personal loss and challenging life experiences

Your compassion holds the power to heal

Join us in healing trauma and loss through neuroscience.

After experiencing pain, grief, loss, and trauma often manifest through chronic illness, anxiety, depression, and other mental health challenges. With our mental wellness resources and services, you can reach your peak potential, get over the places where you are stuck, and use compassion for yourself to transform your life.

Dr. Elizabeth Weiss

Loss

Have you experienced a loss of trust in the system, loss of a loved one, or loss of your health? We can help you build a framework to move through grief and live a meaningful life.

Trauma

Ongoing or lingering trauma often manifests as anxiety, depression, PTSD, or other challenges that disrupt your ability to live freely. You can experience mental wellness.

Peak performance

We accompany you through every stage of your career, from overcoming barriers and achieving peak performance to finding the most meaningful position for your life.

About

Dr. Elizabeth Weiss

Thanks so much for visiting this site! It is my hope to help you heal and grow.

Are you facing, or have you faced, life challenges that require learning, growing or adapting in ways that you might never have imagined?

Chronic illness, cancer, the death of a loved one, the loss of dreams held dearly, and trials that are part of living and maturing can create so much trauma that we just get stuck.

As people, we have amazing capacity to overcome tremendous adversity. Yet, sometimes a trauma or ongoing challenge is so severe that we have difficulty moving past it.

By helping people tap into their ability to heal and recover from trauma and other challenges, I help clients overcome and flourish despite the stressful events they face. In my work with individuals, families, and couples, I apply evidence-based techniques from psychology to alleviate the distressing impact of trauma.

I am direct, compassionate, and supportive as I help people choose and create the changes needed for a satisfying life. In our work together, we can help recover from losses, manage stressors, and live a fulfilling life. Give me a call today, or just fill out the contact form and click Send. I’m here to help.

My practice serves adults and geriatric adults in Half Moon Bay and surrounding communities. Online appointments are available.

Featured Book

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook for Depression: Moving Beyond Depression, Embracing Your Values, and Living with Purpose

By Dr. Elizabeth Weiss

I really enjoyed reading through and working with this book and my depression. Dr. Weiss explained things really well that helped me work with some stuff that I had been avoiding out of fear. As a mindfulness and compassion coach, the workbook is a great tool to help my clients accept and work compassionately to heal themselves. For anyone who gets stuck with depression, sadness, and other low moods I highly recommend this workbook.

I'm a therapist and college professor. This book was a good read and will use it when working with clients struggling with addiction. I've recommended this to several colleagues.

As a former anxiety neurotic, I have not experienced depression myself, but I have friends who are troubled by deep depression and thoughts of suicide. I have some clinical psychology training and experience and believe this ACT Workbook may be what will help them. Journaling is a well-known therapeutic aid. This workbook can be considered a structured journal to help a depressive or their therapist guide them to a healthier way of life using the ACT method. Dr. Weiss provides sections for diagnosis, dispelling myths, acceptance, developing psychological flexibility, and living in the present moment. The included F-E-A-R paradigm worksheets help the individual form a healthier self-concept by unhooking emotions and identifications with a dysfunctional ego. There are worksheets to restructure labels of “good vs bad,” to overcome psychological limits, and get in touch with the “Zen Observer.” Numerous other worksheets help individuals identify their core beliefs and values, current character strengths and aspirational ideals, identify stressors and their antidotes, and create their own “wellness plan.” This ACT Workbook can be considered an “Expert System” which for some may be enough to overcome depression, and for others may be a non-threatening way to enhance discussions with a therapist, providing better outcomes with fewer sessions. Highly recommended.