Liza Szabo

Liza Szabo RDH, MA, ND

Practices at her Dharma House in Carlsbad California, and has co-founded Seasons Retreats in Hawaii for Retreats in Spiritual Development. She specializes in Health and Life Coaching.

Liza has more than 20 years experience in Holistic Medicine, ranging from Naturopathic Dental Care, Yoga and Meditation, a Masters Degree in Psychotherapy, training in Body Therapy and Rebirthing as well as Organizational Consulting.

Liza specializes in the Multiple Disciplinarian Field of the Healing Arts with a foundation trained as a counselor and therapist, holding a Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, internship in Marriage and Family Orientation, a Registered Licensed Dental Hygienist and a Board Certified Naturopath by the ANMA. At the tender age of 16, Liza began helping others in the counseling field as she learned in her earliest years as a child to inspect life deeply. As an adult she has been in private practice 24 years witnessing many people, their healing and walks of life. Working with individuals, couples, families, groups and business relationships conflicts, she has assisted literally thousands of people in their journey to health of body, mind and spirit. Her approach includes viewing family and Intimate Relationship Dynamics, physical recovery of health and illness with nutrition, Yoga, and meditation. Liza utilizes both Mindfulness and Loving Kindness practice. She focuses on strengthening both body and psyche. She assists others in defining their purpose and mission and builds a lifestyle that is congruent to their direction. One of Liza’s first experiences at age 20 in private practice in dentistry was contracting mercury toxicity. This led her to participate with the pioneers in developing models of safety in the field, as well as nutrition and detoxification approaches to heal herself and help her clients reverse health ailments such as MS, cancer, and multiple degenerative issues and mental afflictions. She worked directly with world re-known Biological Medical -Dental clinics in her 20’s. Over time, a natural healing process unfolded in Liza’s observation regardless of the type of treatment used. When partnering with others on the path of healing in sacred session, with bare-witnessing, awareness and allowing the connection with the supreme God we all have, she saw recovery for herself and others from deep states of pain and suffering. A natural process of insight and healing with out direct control of the outcome or use and manipulation through medicines emerged. A higher healing took place and sometimes spontaneously. Now, joined in a sacred session with others, she utilizes both dialogue and moment-to-moment attention to the unfolding essence of ones being that is brought forth when one opens to the suffering, allowing higher consciousness, love and the supreme god to penetrate ones heart and mind. To go beyond our victim- hood of disease and be elevated to appreciation and gratitude of remembering why we are here, to love and to share. Sitting silently together or engaged in a process of sharing ones truth, ones real living connection reveals itself bringing happiness, peace and harmony. What once was confusion in the mind now becomes a clear mirror of understanding. Liza also assists clients to "tune” into the chakras and what is being activated in ones life to be addressed and how to balance what is arising. Through investigating our direct experience, we begin to see the feminine and masculine polarities within which allows individual to integrate changes in them in becoming whole, and understand the relationship dynamics in their current circumstances. Issues of grief, loss and pain, are transformed to joy, bliss and openness. Liza supports this by allowing empathic and non-judgmental sharing of ones thoughts, emotions and beliefs, so that they may be accepted by the person and transcended to a state of self-acceptance, love and happiness; rather than that of struggle and pain.

Liza grew up with beautiful parents who had fought for the right to survive after growing up in the Holocaust. Their level of having touched the depth of suffering, and the ability to maneuver in danger with psychic sensitivity created an intense environment for her family to delve deeply into the meaning of healing ones life. Her parents taught her the meaning of gratitude for what is, and the awareness that life is impermanent in the physical world and that reaching for the highest possibility of freedom is not only possible but our birthright. Liza’s Father kissed the ground of the Colorado Rockies and blessed her birth saying “we have come this far” and now our children experience freedom. Liza’s mother and father taught her early the beauty of being in a safe, breathtaking world. Their wish for themselves and all Beings was the release of war and bondage and opening to the preciousness of love in this life. What once was tragedy become a passage for her family to develop the deepest desire for peace and transcendence of the mind states that cause us to bring harm to others and the planet. As a teenager Liza studied the psychology of healing in an attempt to understand the experience of war survivors, or those who had stress disorders so that she may help her family and herself. This lead to a passion for a life of service and Opening to the abundance of Gods divine love and blessings. Liza is grateful to have others to share this dharma with. “When we sit together in silence we find the ordinariness of our experience and desiring more than we have drops away to appreciation” Without harnessing the mind of always ‘wanting this or that” there is a tension that is unresolved. That does not allow us to experience deeper levels of healing” Liza invites others to slow down, breath and listen to the answers within. Finding oneself, here and now, I ask myself “why just do something, sit here, that’s the beginning, but not the end”