Louiza Livschitz, Psy.D.

Dr. Louiza Livschitz (PSY 32373) is a licensed clinical psychologist who earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium.

She has provided individual, couples and group psychotherapy in a variety of diverse training settings including: Santa Clara University Counseling Center, Mountain View High School, various community mental health centers and Stanford’s Prevention and Intervention Research lab. Her pre-doctoral internship was at University of California, Santa Cruz Counseling Center. Prior to graduate school she worked as a first responder for victims of sexual assault, volunteered at a suicide hotline for many years, and worked in a day treatment program.

Dr. Livschitz is a cisgender Jewish female, who was born in Ukraine and immigrated to the United States as a child.  As an immigrant herself, she deeply values the impact that family-of-origin and culture have on identity development, interpersonal relationships, and how one views the world. Her dissertation research focused on examining the relationship between academic stress and physical health symptoms in young adults and how cultural factors impact that relationship.

Louiza practices primarily from CBT, DBT, and relational framework, integrating aspects of these modalities based on each client's unique presenting problems. She believes that some of the ways people developed to cope with difficult experiences in early life no longer adaptively serve them; therefore, she helps clients gain insight into those patterns and develop new ways of being in order to make positive changes. Her clinical interests include life transitions, relationship issues, identity and interpersonal development, grief/loss, anxiety, depression, and trauma work.

Pronouns: she/her/hers