About Dr. Liz...

Dr Liz Esalen is the Founder and CEO of Luminous Trauma Center and The Lotus Collaborative, eating disorder recovery centers in Santa Cruz and San Francisco, California. Dr. Liz has dedicated her career to creating quality, heart-centered healing organizations that foster mind-body-soul reconnection and profound transformation. She is a Doctor of Clinical Psychology and a licensed psychologist with 12 years of organizational leadership and over 25 years of holistic clinical experience. Esalen's personal and professional mission is to inspire people to achieve a thriving life filled with health, love, vitality, and bliss. Over the last six years, Esalen's own transformational journey has involved conscious and ecstatic dance, restoring optimal health after trauma and autoimmunity, training in MAPS' MDMA-assisted therapy, Internal Family Systems, the enneagram, gender diversity, racial and gender equity, and shamanic energy medicine. At Luminous Healing Center, Esalen's work is at the forefront of her field, offering new and progressive evidence-based treatments for psychological trauma, PTSD, and mind-body anxiety. Dr. Liz has a passion for leading shamanic dance journeys and feminine leadership at various retreats around the world and plans to launch Inspired Bliss retreats in Kauai this year. 

A testimonial...

"Elizabeth, you are not only my therapist but you have become a friend, a confidant and a mentor. I believe that in life you meet special people that are brought into your world for a purpose and to me you are a guardian angel that helped me come back to life. I can honestly say I would not be sitting here today without having you as a part of this journey. You have been someone who from day one knew when to challenge me, when to hug me, when to push me and when to force me to slow down. I know it wasn’t always easy, but you have truly changed and saved my life. You have a passion for people and a love for your job like I have never seen before and it is because of that passion and love that i finally believed that I could be where I am at today, that I could go from being hopeless to hopeful. So thank you Elizabeth, for always believing in me, always pushing me and never giving up."