Elizabeth has been a student and practitioner of The Work of Byron Katie for over twenty years, beginning working by herself with Katie’s first book Loving What Is and continuing through training at The School for The Work of Byron Katie and continually refining her understanding with amazing facilitator Barrett Mandel and others. She is a registered drama therapist with an emphasis on narrative—how people story their lives—trained by Professor Pam Dunne at The Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles. As a drama therapist she worked with those all along the Autism spectrum, adults with Developmental Disabilities, with youth at Hollygrove Orphans Home, youth and adults of all ages seeking greater clarity on issues that caused unhappiness and for those seeking to address their personal issues through creativity and those seeking more creativity in their lives.

She is a certified Mindfulness Meditation Facilitator (professional level) through UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, and is currently in a two-year teacher training through the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program led by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield leading to professional certification through The Awareness Training Institute and UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center. For the past four years, she has studied with meditation teacher and mentor Chris McKenna at Blue Heron, alongside Megan Cowan.

Elizabeth is a graduate of Eckhart Tolle’s School of Awakening, completing training in Becoming a Teacher of Presence and The Spiritual Guide to Conscious Manifestation, led by Eckhart Tolle and Kim Eng. She is also a certified Flow Expressive Arts Life Coach through The Flow Institute in Canada, a program based on positive psychology, flow theory of psychologist Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, expressive arts, good coaching practices recognized by The International Coaching Federation (ICF) and the research of master coach, therapist, and creator of The Flow Institute, the amazing, brilliant, lovely, Talyaa Varder.

She holds both a bachelor’s of fine arts in acting and a master’s degree in performance education from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, is a registered drama therapist from The Drama Therapy Institute of Los Angeles Elizabeth taught acting for twelve years at The Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York and Los Angeles, at Scott Sedita Acting Studios, and as a private coach. She has performed many plays and has a deep love for the monologue form. Her one-act play The Heart Has a Memory and her monologue collection This Pertains to You Too are slated for production in 2026.

Her passion for photography began as a boxing photographer and now focuses on soulful portraiture. She is honored to have four of her portraits in the permanent collection at the Modern Contemporary Tibetan Art Museum in the Netherlands.