About

Elizabeth Scott, LCPC

You don’t need another solution that stays in your head. You’re ready for transformation that you can feel.

I'm Elizabeth Scott, LCPC, and I guide emotionally intelligent and deeply caring humans like you from overwhelm and disconnection back to themselves—not through more analyzing, but through gentle, powerful reconnection.

Although I’d almost always known deep down I’d become a therapist, initially it seemed like there would be a lot of pressure to figure things out for clients that would lead to their understanding and “breakthroughs”, which felt like it would be an immense burden.

To my great relief (and to the very good fortune of future clients everywhere), I learned that this was not the case, and even that having insight into a problem doesn’t translate to healing it.

A Different Kind of Healing

What I've discovered instead, both through fifteen years of clinical experience and my own healing journey, is that we don't need to be fixed—we need to be remembered. The wisdom, wholeness, and emotional safety you're seeking isn't something I give you; it's already within you, waiting to be uncovered.

When I found Internal Family Systems (IFS), everything shifted. After years of talk therapy that gave me support and insight but not the deep internal shifts I was hoping for, IFS offered something different: a path to genuinely feel differently inside, not just understand why I felt that way.

This discovery became my passion. I've immersed myself in this transformative approach because I've experienced firsthand how it creates lasting change where other methods couldn't reach.

It is my absolute joy to share this potent healing modality with you and to partner with you in connecting to your innate wisdom and well-being, uncovering your unique gifts and strengths along the way.

Our Work Together

I bring a unique blend of evidence-based clinical expertise and intuitive healing practices that honor all parts of you—your mind, your emotions, your spirit, and your embodied experience.

Talk therapy can be enormously helpful and may be exactly what you need, and my background in Psychodynamic and Interpersonal Process therapy informs the relational approach I take with clients.  In some cases, talk therapy might not be enough to bring the tangible results and healing you are looking for.

Using a foundation of Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) and a customized approach that may include nervous system support or complementary modalities, I join with you in a process that is an exact fit for you, supporting you in living the life of value that you deserve.

I especially love offering IFS because it’s non-pathologizing, creates more self compassion and calm, and over time can become a practice you can do yourself, giving you increasing confidence in your ability to respond to whatever is showing up in your life when you’re outside of therapy or when our work together ends

Together, we'll:

  • Transform your relationship with yourself through gentle, powerful IFS work

  • Create emotional safety that begins within and ripples outward

  • Build practices that ground you in your inherent wholeness

  • Honor both your sensitivity and your strength

And you don't have to choose between clinical excellence and soul-centered healing. At HeartSight Healing, you can have both. I have witnessed the power of the mind-body-spirit connection and am available to explore how complementary modalities like reiki or astrology might support your path to well-being.

Ready to come home to yourself? Contact me for a free 15-minute consultation to see if working together feels like the right fit at the right time, and to explore what's possible when you're truly met.

Credentials

  • Maryland Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, License # LC6480

  • National Board for Certified Counselors National Certified Counselor, 2015, NCC #282458

  • Certified Nature Informed Therapist, Certificate # 48421625467645

  • Safe and Sound Protocol Certified Provider

  • World Peace Usui Holy Fire Karuna Reiki Master Practitioner

Education

  • Johns Hopkins University, M.S. in Clinical Community Counseling, 2011

  • Furman University, B.A. in English, 2005

Professional Memberships

  • Maryland Licensed Professional Counselor

  • American Counseling Association

  • American College Counseling Association

 

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

— Carl Rogers

 
 

I believe

 

Your feelings and reactions make sense and require understanding, compassion and acceptance. 

You are the expert on your experience. Together we can make sense of your story in a way that can create relief and greater ease.

Therapy is most effective when it is a collaboration and a partnership, deciding together what works best for you.

You are already whole and an immense capacity for wisdom and healing exists within you.

Having a strong sense of self-worth is your birthright.

As a therapist, I am in this human experience with you and am walking the path alongside you.

Approaching your symptoms and difficulties with curiosity and compassion is key in discovering the root. The way you are feeling activated, distressed or tender is a guidepost that can lead us in the direction of what needs healing and attention. We aim to understand and follow those signs as a part of our work together.

One of the most important elements of effective therapy is the development of a safe, trusting relationship between therapist and client. Through genuine and respectful connection, we create the environment in which true healing can occur.

Learning is a lifelong process, and I’m always in search of new ways to help my clients.

Healing is holistic. It involves the body, movement, nutrition, creativity, connecting with nature and with others as well as psychotherapy. Complementary modalities like acupuncture, yoga, bodywork and more and support the journey to greater health and ease, and I’m happy to help you explore options that may enhance your inner work.

 

Reach out.