Professional Consultation
You didn't get into this work to feel alone in it.
Whether you're navigating a complex case, building a practice that actually fits your life, or expanding into new clinical territory, sometimes what you need is someone to think it through with you. Not to hand you answers or tell you what to do, but to help you see your work more clearly, explore what you might be missing, and find your own next right step.
I offer consultation for therapists at a range of stages:
Newly licensed clinicians finding their footing – identifying preferred modalities and a theoretical “home.”
Experienced therapists looking to reshape or expand the way they work.
Clinicians looking to build expertise in a specific area, such as couples and relationship therapy, sex therapy, and/or chronic pain and other mindbody or neuroplastic symptoms.
Clinical Consultation
A thinking partner for the cases that stay with you.
I know what it’s like to finish a session, unsure about next steps, frustrated with the lack of traction. We do really hard work, and we want to feel like we’re on the right track. The hardest part is that we’re not sure, and no one is there by our side to tell us!
I offer consultation grounded in emotionally focused and experiential approaches, with a transtheoretical lens rooted in the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process (TRP) – a framework that maps how lasting change actually happens in the brain, regardless of the modality used to get there. Because TRP isn't technique-specific, it travels across approaches. Wherever you're working from, we can think together about what your client needs and how your existing tools might get them there.
Want to know more about my approach? See below for more information about my clinical background.
I might be a good fit for you if you…
Find yourself drawn to the why beneath a client's pattern, not just the what to do about it
Similarly, you want to know the why behind why a modality works and to “get under the hood” of its mechanisms of change
Are working with couples or individuals on sexual concerns and want support from someone with dedicated training in sex therapy
Are curious about experiential and emotionally focused approaches but want a space to think through how they actually apply to your cases
Genuinely love the craft – the unique combination of art and science that is psychotherapy, and you are a lifelong learner
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Lillian accepts a limited number of speaking engagements each year. To inquire about availability, fees, or to discuss a custom talk for your audience, reach out below.
Private Practice Consultation
Building a practice that's sustainable, authentic, and actually yours.
Private practice can feel isolating — especially when you're trying to figure out not just how to run a business, but what kind of practice actually reflects who you are as a clinician. I've been there. The support I offer is practical without being prescriptive. I can help with:
Private Practice Foundations & Systems
The logistics, systems, and mindset shifts that make private practice feel less overwhelming and more like something you actually built on purpose — from intake to scheduling to documentation, building workflows that support your clinical work instead of competing with it.
I've been intentional about who I've learned from in building my own practice: documentation expertMaelisa McCaffrey of QA Prep, legendary practice-building coachLynn Grodzki, Highly Sensitive Person/Therapist specialistApril Snow, and the team atPerson Centered Tech for HIPAA and tech guidance. I've collected a lot of practical knowledge along the way — and I'm happy to share it, point you toward the right resources, or help you figure out what you even need to be thinking about. Sometimes it just starts with knowing what's out there.
Finding Your Authentic Niche
Not the niche that looks good on paper — the one that energizes you, aligns with your strengths, and draws the clients you're genuinely excited to work with.
It's easy to build a niche around your identity or your credentials rather than what actually lights you up clinically. I was talking recently with a therapist friend who was struggling in private practice. When I asked about his niche, he said he worked with veterans — which made sense, because he is one. But as we talked, something else emerged: what being a veteran had affirmed for him most deeply was the value of family, shaped by how hard it was to be away from his wife and daughter while deployed. By the end of our conversation, he'd identified his real passion — family therapy, which happens to be a hugely underserved niche that could fill a practice quickly. The niche was always there. It just needed the right conversation to surface it.
Building Authentic Networking Connections
Referral relationships that feel genuine, not transactional, and that start from a very different question than most people ask.
Most networking advice tells you to think about who can send you clients. I'd encourage you to start somewhere else entirely: who do you actually connect with? Who shares your values, gets excited about the same clinical puzzles, or serves the people you most want to help (or people adjacent to them)? When you lead with your genuine story – your niche, your passions, the work that actually lights you up – the right relationships tend to find you. Referrals become a byproduct of real connection rather than something you have to engineer. “Selling yourself” becomes authentically sharing yourself and letting the connection naturally happen.
Once you're clear on what you're passionate about, I can help you think through who to reach out to and build a networking strategy that actually feels like you.
Lillian might be a good fit for you if you…
Are newly licensed and trying to figure out how to build something sustainable without burning out in the process
Have been in practice for a while but feel like your business grew around you – and you're ready to be more intentional about it
Know you want a niche but keep second-guessing whether yours is "enough" or "too specific"
Are tired of generic business advice
Want your practice to reflect who you actually are – your values, your pace, your clinical identity
Want to feel deeper connection with your professional community
Lillian's Clinical Foundations
I started my career in an interesting place: trying to bridge the gap between my family systems master's program and a community mental health system that required strict adherence to CBT and DBT. I learned early how to find the overlaps and translate across frameworks. I added Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to my repertoire, which I felt added some needed color and richness to behavioral therapies with the addition of values and mindfulness. My initial couples training came through the Gottman Method (Levels 1 and 2). While I learned a lot about relationships through their research, it ultimately didn’t resonate the most with me as a treatment model.
The next major chapter in my professional development was earning my AASECT certification as a sex therapist – a deep dive into human sexuality that I wanted to meaningfully integrate with my existing clinical foundations. That search led me to more experiential ways of working, including Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) and Emotion Awareness and Expression Therapy (EAET) for Chronic Pain, and to learning about the emotional underpinnings of chronic pain and other mindbody symptoms.
Today I work primarily from Coherence Therapy and EFT. What draws me to both is that they take symptoms seriously as meaningful and coherent – not patterns to be managed, but expressions of something that makes complete sense once you understand what's underneath. What I find most satisfying is knowing about the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process, which defines a broad map of therapeutic change that cuts across techniques and modalities – which means in consultation, we're not working from my framework, we're working from a universal framework of change. I can help you see your cases through a different lens, find what might be missing, and think creatively about how your existing tools can do more than you might expect.