Couples and Family Coaching
Come home
You can connect with your true self, live from a place of authentic wholeness, and experience genuine acceptance, love, and belonging with others. Here, you are safe to be transparent (even when it isn’t pretty), integrate parts of yourself you have lost or avoided, and discover your gift for connection.
Is coaching right for you? It may be if…
You want to deepen your connection with those you love
You struggle with communication problems or conflicting views
You hope to take your relationship to the next level of intimacy and fulfillment, joy and fun
You want to create more closeness with your family
You want to understand what to do about challenging patterns in your relationships.
You struggle to know who to trust, or how to develop trust.
You want more harmony in your relationships
You belong
We belong to ourselves; and, as we begin to experience genuine connection, we find we also belong to one another. When we truly see and meet one another we uncover a living, vital force that uplifts our relationships and our lives.
What others are saying
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“Dr. Gifford does the most effective relationship-building I’ve ever seen. She helps you identify your personal sense of purpose and values; understand your skills and barriers in communication; see the potential for doing better; and encourages you to take risks knowing she’s with you each step of the way. All of this has a profound, transformative impact on your connection with yourself, your life, and your relationships with others. Her combination of insight, vision, warmth, and hope is unique and makes her an outstanding coach and clinician.”
Marc Castellani, PhD, Lead Whole Health Education, Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation, VH
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“Liz (Dr. Gifford) I admire Liz: her compassion, her sense of peace, her laughter, her flexibility, and her ability to find the good in every situation and person. But mostly, I am grateful for her coaching. Liz has an innate ability to create conditions that allow people to feel comfortable in vulnerable situations…Her warmth, grace and gentle approach truly sets the stage for those working with her to flourish. Liz has shown me many things but the most valuable lesson I take with me is that listening is valuable, important, even critical. She even taught me how to accept that what might appear to be criticism is an opportunity for feedback, without resentment and with appreciation. She taught me how to take feedback with grace. This lesson will last forever. I’m very grateful.”
Amy Whitaker, LCSW, Veteran Experience Officer, Bay Pines Healthcare System
