Lia Stiles, MSW, LCSW (She/Her/Hers)
EMDR Trained Therapist
Medford Office
Lia is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker providing therapy for adults struggling with various mental health obstacles at Mindful Soul Center for Wellbeing. Lia received her Bachelor and Master of Social Work from Monmouth University. She has experience working with skills from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), as well as additional training in Motivational Interviewing and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Lia believes in the importance of creating a warm, safe, and welcoming space for all. She focuses on helping her clients learn and use coping skills to help them navigate life with more ease. She emphasizes the importance of kindness and compassion in her work with clients, while assisting them in exploring themselves a little deeper and work towards healing.
Individuals experiencing mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, or increased life stress are met with gentle encouragement and understanding in their work with Lia. She brings concepts from her 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher Training, including breathwork, mindfulness, and meditation to counseling, helping clients work with the mind, body, and spirit to improve their overall mental health and wellbeing. Lia takes a trauma-informed approach, believing that trauma can be “Big T” trauma, or a collection of smaller traumas — both of which can create a heavy load on a person. Lia is passionate about bringing body-based and neurobiological processes into session to help her clients gain a better understanding of the role the body plays in their emotional responses.
Working with Lia will look like a combination of learning skills and how to make small adjustments for everyday life, while being curious about oneself and delving deeper into the underlying reasons behind thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. She collaborates with her clients to help them create their own goals for therapy and move at a comfortable pace towards them. Lia promises that her clients “drive the car,” while she holds the map and helps them navigate to their desired destination!
During her free time, Lia enjoys taking yoga classes and spending time with her loved ones. She’ll never say no to a good meal and enjoys exploring new places with new restaurants to eat at. She often complains of having too many hobbies, spending most of her time creating art, knitting and crocheting, or reading. Lia is always on the hunt for beautiful tarot decks and crystals, and enjoys tracking Western astrology.
When you start to feel like things should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here. They are not accidents and those moments weren’t in vain. You are not the same; you have grown and you are growing. You are breathing, you are living. You are wrapped in endless, boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday.
— Morgan Harper Nichols
When you start to feel like things should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here. They are not accidents and those moments weren’t in vain. You are not the same; you have grown and you are growing. You are breathing, you are living. You are wrapped in endless, boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday.
– Morgan Harper Nichols