About Liz Higgins, LMFT-S, DARTT
Welcome!
Is this you?
You’re driven. You have big ideas, a vision for your life, and a hunger for success. But deep down, something feels off. You might struggle to connect with others in a way that feels truly fulfilling. Maybe relationships—romantic or otherwise—feel complicated, distant, or even nonexistent. Anxiety lingers in your body, making it hard to relax and enjoy the present moment. You keep telling yourself that once you reach the next milestone, you'll finally feel the peace and joy you crave… but that moment never quite arrives.
I help entrepreneurs, creatives, and deep thinkers break free from these cycles by guiding them through deep inner work. Using the Healing Our Core Issues (HOCI) Model, I help you uncover the unconscious patterns keeping you stuck—patterns formed through early experiences that now shape your relationships, emotional landscape, and ability to experience true self-trust and connection.
What Is the HOCI Model?
The Healing Our Core Issues (HOCI) Model is a powerful framework for understanding how our earliest emotional wounds—often formed in childhood—continue to shape our adult experiences. If you’ve ever felt disconnected, emotionally avoidant, or stuck in cycles of self-sabotage, it’s likely that unmet developmental needs from your past are influencing your present. HOCI helps you reclaim your core self by addressing wounds related to abandonment, shame, trust, dependency, and autonomy—all of which affect how you relate to yourself and others.
This work is not about quick fixes. It’s about deep, integrative healing that allows you to experience real change—so that your success is no longer built on anxiety, overperformance, or avoidance, but on true self-alignment.
Who I Work With
I work with individuals who:
✔️ Want to understand themselves deeply but have struggled to break through personal roadblocks.
✔️ Feel emotionally distant, avoidant, or overwhelmed in relationships—or avoid them altogether.
✔️ Experience anxiety in their body that keeps them from fully relaxing and embracing life.
✔️ Postpone joy, believing they’ll feel "enough" once they reach a certain level of success.
If you’re ready to create a life where connection, inner peace, and fulfillment aren’t just afterthoughts—but an integral part of your success—I’d love to help you get there.
Let’s get to the root of what’s been holding you back and build something new, together.
I founded Millennial Life Counseling as a resource for those working hard to achieve great things, pursue fulfillment in life, and experience healthy and exciting relationships (with your family, partner, kids, and peers) along the way. Sometimes, our relationships end up coming last, when they are our most important resource for joy and health.
I’m honored that you would consider our group as a space for your healing journey. I look forward to an opportunity to connect soon!
What do others say about Liz?
“Liz is a phenomenal therapist. I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside her for over eight years now and I’m honored to call her a colleague and friend. Her work ethic and dedication to her clients is unmatched and unparalleled. It takes a certain type of heart and love for wanting to see individuals and couples grow that sets her apart from the rest. Her caring and empathetic spirit, coupled with her witty and fun loving personality make her not only a great therapist that I highly recommend, but an outstanding supervisor.
Liz has a gift to be able to connect with her clients in a way that many other therapist can only dream of doing and it’s largely because of her authenticity and ability to look at the world in a way that makes sense to the clients world.”
AnnaMarie Christian, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT-Associate
“Liz Higgins is an exceptional Marriage and Family Therapist. She has had extensive training in working with relationships, especially with Millennials. She is compassionate, caring, and most of all, the consummate therapist. If you are looking for counseling help, whether you are beginning a relationship or needing help in your current relationship call Liz.”
Dr. Ken Bateman, LMFT-S, LPC-S
Credentials & Certifications:
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
LMFT Board Approved Supervisor
Developmental and Relational Trauma Therapist (DARTT) certification through the Healing Our Core Issues Institute
Relational Life Therapist - Level 3 Trained
Prepare-Enrich premarital facilitator and trainer
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