Liz Vossen, MSc

Liz Vossen is a clinical counselling intern completing her Master's of Counselling at City University of Seattle. Her therapeutic approach is grounded in a deep understanding of transformation processes, informed by both personal experience and academic research focused on facilitating profound change in therapeutic settings. She brings a unique perspective to her practice, recognizing the difference between surface-level adjustments and the kind of integrated transformation that fundamentally reshapes how clients experience themselves and their world.

Liz enjoys supporting clients who are ready for change and sense that deeper transformation is possible. Drawing from her own experience of profound life transitions - including career and moving countries - she understands the courage required to move beyond familiar patterns toward authentic growth. Her approach honors the difference between managing symptoms and creating lasting, integrated change that fundamentally reshapes how clients see themselves and their possibilities.

Using an anti-oppressive, feminist, relational framework, Liz creates a therapeutic space where clients can explore being stuck in patterns, relationship challenges, anxiety, depression, past experiences, or the sense of being meant for something more. She believes in her clients' inherent capacity for profound growth and considers it an honor to witness and support their evolutions.

Highlights:

  • Liz’s Capstone research focuses on facilitating profound personal transformation in therapeutic settings. Her work explores how to support clients seeking fundamental shifts in identity, meaning-making, and life direction, moving beyond traditional symptom management to create lasting, integrated change rather than surface-level adjustments that require constant maintenance.

  • Liz is passionate about developing her ability to create strong therapeutic alliances with clients as a  strong therapeutic relationship can create the safety necessary for clients to explore deep change and step into their full potential. Looking ahead, she plans to pursue specialized training in EMDR, Internal Family Systems (parts work), and other trauma-informed therapeutic approaches, recognizing that trauma touches the lives of many clients and significantly shapes their capacity for growth and connection. Liz is drawn to modalities that honor the complexity of human experience while supporting clients in moving beyond symptom management toward integrated, lasting transformation that aligns with their authentic selves.

  • Before transitioning to counselling, Liz had an extensive international career supporting social and environmental change work around the world. She worked with innovators and changemakers across multiple sectors, with significant clients including directorates at the European Union, UN, USAID, and various governments. Her work focused on facilitating multi-organizational systems-level change to address complex global challenges.

    The creation of change has been the constant thread throughout Liz's career. Where she once worked at the macro level supporting transformational change across organizations and systems, she now works at the most human level - in one-on-one relationships with clients. She considers it a tremendous honor to be trusted with the inner lives of her clients and to support their personal transformation journeys. This unique background in large-scale change work brings a distinctive perspective to her therapeutic practice, understanding transformation at both systemic and deeply personal levels.

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