“With a little courage, so much is possible.”
Olivia C. Padelukas, Licensed Therapist & Founder of Liv Mental Health, Counseling Services
Our services
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Individual therapy can create space to explore what may feel challenging in your life, relationships, or internal world. Together, we work toward a deeper understanding of the patterns that may contribute to anxiety, perfectionism, stress, or difficulty navigating life transitions.
Our approach is relational and collaborative, supporting greater self-understanding and helping cultivate more clarity, steadiness, and choice in how you relate to yourself and others.
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Couples therapy offers a space to slow down and better understand the patterns shaping your relationship. We support partners in improving communication, navigating conflict, and deepening emotional and relational connection, including challenges related to intimacy.
Our work focuses on helping you recognize interactional patterns as they happen, build empathy, and strengthen the foundation of your relationship.
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Group therapy offers a space for connection, reflection, and shared experience. In a supportive group setting facilitated by a therapist, members explore personal challenges, relational patterns, and emotional experiences while also learning from others in the room.
Group work can offer perspective, connection, and a sense of being understood in ways that individual work sometimes cannot.
Our approach
Different types of therapy can shape the pace, focus, and feel of the therapeutic experience, as well as how sessions may look and feel. This article offers a closer look at those differences.
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Relational therapy focuses on what unfolds in the therapeutic relationship as it happens. Grounded in present-moment awareness and influenced by Gestalt principles, it helps us understand how patterns from past relationships may show up in the present. Working this way can support greater self-awareness and more flexible ways of relating to others and yourself.
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Attachment-based therapy explores how early relational experiences shape how you connect, trust, and respond to closeness. Within the safety of the therapeutic relationship, we can begin to understand these patterns as they arise in real time and gently work toward greater security, self-understanding, and emotional steadiness.
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Somatic awareness invites attention to what is happening in the body as you speak, reflect, and feel. Rather than focusing only on insight, we also notice sensations, tension, and shifts in nervous system states. This helps emotional experience become something you can recognize and work with in a more embodied way.
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Trauma-informed work prioritizes safety, pacing, and choice. It recognizes how past experiences may impact your current emotional and physiological responses. In therapy, we move carefully and collaboratively, supporting you in rebuilding a sense of trust, agency, and stability over time.
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Integrative therapy allows us to draw flexibly from different approaches depending on what you need in the moment. Rather than following a single method, we adapt our work to your experience, helping you explore patterns, build insight, increase awareness, and move toward meaningful change in a way that feels responsive and personalized.
Find a good fit for your needs.
Each person who comes to therapy brings something distinct, so it makes sense that no single therapist will feel right for everyone. If you’re exploring whether someone on our team might feel like a good fit, we invite you to take your time with their individual bios. You’ll find more about each therapist’s background, approach, and the way they tend to work with people in therapy.
What often matters isn’t a perfect match on paper, but whether something in their presence or approach feels like it resonates with what you’re looking for right now. We hope you find someone who feels like a steady and supportive fit as you begin this process.
And if you’re still trying to make sense of what “good fit” means, you might find this note from our founder helpful.