I’ve Always Been Drawn to the Deeper Questions
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I’ve Always Been Drawn to the Deeper Questions *
Not everyone arrives at this work through a straight line.
Before I became a therapist, I was a flight attendant — moving through the world at a fast pace, immersed in different cultures, curious about people in their natural environments. I loved the aliveness of it. The constant learning. The way travel strips away pretense and reveals something essential about who people really are.
What I didn’t realize then was that I was already doing the work. I was the one asking the probing questions. The one willing to sit with dark, heavy, or fearful things when everyone else changed the subject. The one offering a different way of seeing things — not because I had all the answers, but because I was genuinely, relentlessly curious about why people do what they do, what gives them purpose, and what it actually means to live a life that feels like yours.
Eventually, that curiosity became a calling.
The Existential Thread
I chose to study Existential, Phenomenological Psychology deliberately — not as a default, but as a philosophy. The existential framework asks the questions most therapies avoid: What does your life mean? What are you truly free to choose? What are you avoiding? What would it look like to live with full awareness of your own mortality and act accordingly?
These aren’t abstract questions to me. I was exploring them for myself at the same time I was learning to hold space for others to explore them. That parallel journey never really ended — and I believe it makes me a better therapist for it.
My work is informed by the thinking of Irvin Yalom and Viktor Frankl, but it isn’t bound by any single protocol. I follow what comes up. I bring genuine curiosity, not a predetermined map.
WHO I WORK WITH
Over 13 years in private practice, I’ve worked with a wide range of people — but I’m most drawn to high-achieving adults who have built remarkable lives and arrived, unexpectedly, at a place of emptiness or disconnection.
Executives. Founders. Professionals at the top of their fields. People who are exceptional at what they do and quietly uncertain about who they are.
I understand this world. I raised a Division I, national championship athlete — I know what grit, sacrifice, and relentless pursuit of a goal looks like up close. I know what it costs. And I know that the finish line is rarely what you imagined it would be.
That gap — between the achievement and the feeling — is exactly where this work begins.
Elizabeth Reed LMFT #109704
Your Invitation
Outside the office, I’m still the person I’ve always been — traveling when I can, reading voraciously across fiction, philosophy, history, psychology, and showing up loudly for competition days.
I bring all of that — the curiosity, the love of depth, the appreciation for people who pursue things fully — into the room with every client I work with.
If you’re ready for a therapist who will meet you at the level you actually operate at, I’d be glad to connect.