Elizabeth Ariel Clark LMFT

Elizabeth Ariel Clark LMFT Licensed Therapist and Holistic Coach
Feel safe. Feel seen.

Heal deeply 💛
Somatic, attachment-focused therapy
Brainspotting trained
California — virtual & In-person
Elizabethariel.com

05/20/2026

As you watch the video, you might notice yourself starting to feel more relaxed. ✨

That gentle left-to-right movement is similar to what’s used in bilateral stimulation during Brainspotting and other trauma-focused therapies. In Brainspotting, we often use bilateral music to help the nervous system feel more resourced, grounded, safe, and relaxed while processing heavier or emotionally activating material.

Sometimes even simple rhythmic movement can help us feel:

• calmer in the body
• more present
• less emotionally overwhelmed
• more connected to ourselves

Our nervous systems often respond well to rhythm, movement, and gentle regulation. 🤍

If you’re curious to explore it more, you can stream/download Brainspotting: Biolateral Sound Healing by David Grand.

05/18/2026

Healing is rarely linear. There can be moments of clarity, discomfort, expansion, contraction, grief, relief, resistance, connection, and growth all existing together.

A lot of therapy is not just understanding why you are the way you are, but having reparative emotional experiences that allow change to actually be felt and integrated over time.

Real, lasting change usually isn’t a quick fix. It’s something that gradually unfolds as insight becomes embodied in your daily life, relationships, nervous system, and sense of self.





05/15/2026

Grateful to have attended a workshop with Grazel Garcia through Los Angeles CAMFT focused on couples therapy, ADHD, attachment, and neurodiversity.

We explored how attachment wounds, emotional triggers, and neurodiversity can shape relationship dynamics especially when ADHD is present within the relationship. One of the biggest takeaways was the importance of understanding both the relational/attachment dynamics and the neurological system within the relationship.

I appreciated adding this perspective to my Emotionally Focused Therapy toolbox and deepening my understanding of the patterns couples can get caught in and how to better support connection, communication, and empathy within relationships.

Such an insightful and meaningful workshop 🤍





05/13/2026

I’ve been hearing a lot of stories about therapist burnout lately, and I want to take a moment to acknowledge and validate that this work can be deeply demanding — even when we love what we do and feel aligned with it.

Therapy asks us to spend long stretches of time attuning to others, holding emotional complexity, tracking nervous system cues, and staying present with people through pain, uncertainty, growth, change, and transformation, while suppressing parts of ourselves to remain present for others.

Because of that, I think it’s important we stay curious about something that often gets overlooked:

What actually helps your nervous system regulate after a full day or week of clients and sustained emotional holding?

Sometimes burnout is not only about workload. It is also about whether your nervous system is receiving enough restoration after prolonged emotional output.

For many therapists, recovery doesn’t only happen in solitude.

It can also happen through:
• movement
• nature
• safe connection
• conversation
• laughter
• shared presence

Humans are relational nervous systems.

And sometimes the most regulating thing after a full day of holding others… is being with people and in places that help you come back to yourself.




04/24/2026

We don't always have to dive into the trauma in order to heal. Sometimes it takes resourcing and finding a sense of safety in our bodies, our minds, our hearts, or the environment around us. Once we get that into our system, again and again, we can use it to support the parts of us that have been stuck in survival mode to ease up and come out of the dark places they tend to hide.

04/10/2026

Standing by the creek, listening to the water move over stone, it becomes clear that we aren’t separate from nature - we are part of it.

In holistic somatic therapy, this is the work. Slowing down enough to listen. Letting the body remember its own capacity to regulate. In lives that are fast, demanding, and overstimulating, nature offers a different pace - one that feels steady, grounded, and real.

And just as this was being spoken… a hawk appeared overhead, squawking - wild and unmistakably present. A reminder that when we attune to the natural world, we’re in relationship with it. We respond to it. It responds to us.

We belong to this earth.
And our bodies know the way back.

04/08/2026

We don't always have to dive into the trauma in order to heal. Sometimes it takes resourcing and finding a sense of safety in our bodies, our minds, our hearts, or the environment around us. Once we get that into our system, again and again, we can use it to support the parts of us that have been stuck in survival mode to ease up and come out of the dark places they tend to hide.





☀️ Support your system with light, consistency, and slower pacing.If you’re noticing ongoing dysregulation, deeper work ...
03/18/2026

☀️ Support your system with light, consistency, and slower pacing.

If you’re noticing ongoing dysregulation, deeper work like somatic therapy and Brainspotting can help your system find more regulation over time. 🌙

Visit www.elizabethariel.com for more information.





We are now offering something new: 90-minute Brainspotting sessionsAn average therapy session is 50 minutes. Longer sess...
01/26/2026

We are now offering something new: 90-minute Brainspotting sessions

An average therapy session is 50 minutes.

Longer sessions are for you if you:

* have been through difficult events—recently or long ago
* are still functioning in your daily life but feel like you need more time to process and excavate the traumatic memories
* are experiencing negative images, feelings of being stuck, memories, physical sensations and pain, nightmares, shock, panic, depression, or negative beliefs about yourself or the world around you
* I am now providing 90-minute to 2-hour sessions to offer more time for a deeper internal shift.

Clients who have experienced these extended sessions after significant traumatic events have shared that they leave feeling:

* lighter and more relaxed
* with less tension and anxiety
* increased motivation for things they enjoy
* improved sleep
* reduced nightmares
* more connection and understanding
* more capacity for presence in their daily lives
* more confidence and a clearer vision of how they want to move forward in their lives

If this sounds like something you may be interested in, let's talk! You can book a free 15-minute phone consultation on my website and we can see if these longer sessions are appropriate for you.

I look forward to connecting!

🍃These are the moments that remind me why I do this work! 🍃A client with decades of chronic gut pain came in, amazed to ...
12/11/2025

🍃These are the moments that remind me why I do this work! 🍃
A client with decades of chronic gut pain came in, amazed to find her stomach no longer in pain. At first, she thought she was numb but what she was feeling was calm - something she’d never experienced before.
After years of trauma and physical pain, she’s now starting to imprint a new, pain-free experience.
It’s fascinating to witness healing when the body feels safe enough to remember its natural ease.


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