Elizabeth Lacy, Lcsw, Pllc

Elizabeth Lacy is a bright, knowledgeable and compassionate professional. She is up to date on various models of therapy including CBT, DBT and her speciality, Schema therapy, which for me personally was an extremely effective form of treatment in unwrapping and healing from some of my trauma. I would highly recommend Liz to anyone who is looking for quality care. I cannot thank her enough for her help!

I have to say I really hesitated writing this review because affecting a person's livelihood is not something I take lightly. However, after deep consideration I felt that my experience was worth sharing since I walked away from her hoping no one else ever ends up experiencing what I did. I'm using a false account for privacy reasons but this is by all means a heartfelt review. When I read the other bad review by Xing, I recognized an eerily similar pattern, however my experience was almost the opposite. When I first starting seeing Liz she seemed like a great fit, very knowledgeable and effective but after a few months of sessions things started to change as she gradually became too involved in my personal life as well as became too intimate with her communications to me. When I brought this up she said this the foundation of the type of therapy she practiced. "Re-parenting/Schema" is the proper term I believe. I still felt like she started to cross boundaries that made me feel uneasy but oftentimes with therapy you put a lot of faith in your therapist to behave professionally and I think it took some time for me to see that what was going on was unprofessional and inappropriate. Too many texts, too many extra sessions at the end of the day, I felt like she was trying to fix something in herself or someone in her past through me. When she began to share too much information about her personal life, it got so uncomfortable that I had to fire her as a therapist. She ended up arguing with me about why I shouldn't leaver her care and dangerously twisted vulnerable information I had shared with her in our sessions against me. It took three emails for me to get her to finally leave me alone. It was very clear to me after showing her communications to another therapist that she may need more help than she can give at this point. I would strongly advise against seeing her. A therapist is in an extremely powerful position with their patient, they can really transform a person's life for the better or in the case with a therapist like Liz they can cause great harm.