Founder; Clinical Director
Elizabeth founded Actualize Behavior Alternatives at the beginning of 2010 out of a desire to provide authentic compassionate behavior therapy to the most underserved population in the Denver metro area.
She received her bachelor’s in clinical psychology at the metropolitan University of Denver with a minor in anthropology, where she completed research on the impacts of character education on self-actualization in elementary school students and her master’s degree in clinical social work with an emphasis on high risk youth from the University of Denver, completing research on the prevalence of conduct disorder among juvenile offenders with high rates of recidivism, and the worldwide epidemic of human trafficking.
One of most valuable lessons she’s learned from the school of hard knocks is to put her own oxygen mask on first; our oxygen masks are our energy, time, and resources. If we fill our own tank first, we then have the ability to use our reserves to help other people But when our own tank is low or empty lacking authentic self love and time engaging in true self-care, there’s none left for anyone else around us or in our lives And we are ineffective as helpers, partners, mother’s, friends etc.
If Elizabeth could choose any superpower, it would be time travel.
In her personal time, you can most often find Elizabeth in the water; exploring & adventuring, traveling, climbing trees & building blanket forts with her family, practicing lucid dreaming & Tibetan dream yoga, or devouring a good book, especially those about the scientific investigation of the afterlife, parapsychology and astral projection.