Staff

Elizabeth Alberts, MSW, LCSW
Director

Elizabeth Alberts is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a graduate of Simmons College and Rutgers University. As the Founding Director of Village Counseling Services, Elizabeth brings both an informed and heart centered voice to the nature and meaning of healing.

Elizabeth specializes in the treatment of trauma, depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety disorders. She also has extensive training and experience working with individuals and couples in transition due to sexual identity crisis, issues raised during pre and post adoption, and relationship conflict.

In addition to her transpersonal and cognitive behavioral training, which includes empirically based techniques such as EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a leading edge trauma treatment, in which she is certified level II trained, and her advanced training in DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy), an acceptance-based cognitive behavioral therapy with mindfulness at its core, MBCT (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy), which combines the ideas of cognitive therapy and meditative practices, Elizabeth likes to employ effective visualization, shamanic and energy psychology techniques that she has learned during her travels and studies throughout the world. She was featured in the documentary Healing Ground Zero where she can be seen practicing some of these techniques and is currently working towards her certification in Eden Energy Medicine.

Prior to her work as a psychotherapist, Elizabeth worked in film and theatre. Her extensive travels and love of indigenous cultures, inform her work as a transpersonal psychotherapist today. With over 20 years of clinical practice experience, Elizabeth has provided services to a vast number of clients in her role as Director for three residential/outpatient mental health facilities. In addition, she has provided over eight years of crisis assessment and treatment to New Jersey and Pennsylvania hospital patients and was instrumental in designing and implementing a treatment/vocational housing project with the goal of ending chronic homelessness through employment and housing. This project became a national model.

Elizabeth is an experienced and certified clinical supervisor and trainer of mental health professionals. In addition to her role as Director of Village Counseling Services, she provides clinical consultation and supervision to the Professional Assistance Program of New Jersey, who provide services to protect the public safety and welfare of the citizens of New Jersey through education, identification, evaluation, treatment planning, and advocacy for licensed healthcare and other professionals in recovery from impairing medical conditions and illnesses.

Elizabeth is a full member of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, The National Association of Social Workers, a Founding Member of the Society of Shamanic Practitioners, a member of Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Institute of Authentic Process Healing, the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology and the Association of Transpersonal Psychology.

In addition to assisting her clients in navigating their own personal psychology; Elizabeth is responsible for assisting each psychotherapist at Village Counseling Services in the deepening of their own mindfulness practice.