Elizabeth R. Meyer, LMFT
I am a trauma therapist and writer who grounds my work in the tradition of truth-telling as a freedom practice.
The groundwork for this practice took shape in the early 90’s when I became a founding member of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People at the University of California, Berkeley — a mentorship and collective that changed my life. Motivated to carry the power of this work forward, I served as an Artist Educator with the San Francisco WritersCorps and Alameda County Art Commission empowering youth voice. To deepen my capacity to attend to the consequences of complex trauma, I obtained a Master in Counseling in 2008. For the past 15 years, I have worked primarily as a school-based clinician supporting students and families in the rigorous and loving work of healing. Concurrently, I maintained an independent practice for children and adults, aimed at disrupting the intergenerational transmission of trauma.
The Trusted Bedrock
A range of mentors, disciplines, and practices have informed my use of self as the primary clinical tool for connection and change. Poets, activists, educators, trauma survivors, and psychoanalysts have all provided foundational lessons in tuning into the senses, naming the unspeakable, and collectively fighting for the rights and sanctity of human life. The children and families who have invited me in remain my greatest teachers — diligent excavators and warriors in facing hard truths and risking vulnerability. My learning also comes from working with personal trauma, humbling myself to the impact of generational grief and befriending parts of myself previously denied.
Psychoanalytic, Relational, Attachment-Based, Historically Trauma-Informed, and Sensorimotor approaches have all felt like home. Each discipline and practice echoes what we know to be true of liberatory struggles and movements:
this work is not something you do alone.
I give my utmost thanks to every person along the way who has taught me through example and love.