Elizabeth Pace

Elizabeth Pace is a trauma therapist and educator in private practice in New Orleans, Louisiana who specializes in cultural historical and intergenerational trauma effects in the body and nervous system. In Beth's practice, substance and process addictions are treated as symptoms of trauma and limbic system injury, not as stand alone pathology. Beth approaches addictions treatment as trauma and dissociation treatment, with an emphasis on healing root traumas in order to decrease the need to self-medicate for pain. She believes that treating gestational, intergenerational, and early childhood trauma can lead to greater self-awareness, and that desensitizing the body's threat response creates the internal safety to respond to situations in a healthier way.

Beth is an adjunct professor of counseling theories and counselor ethics at Loyola University of New Orleans, where she incorporates the cultural historical model of trauma into both classes. She is currently conducting a pilot study on a novel cognitive and somatic therapy: Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT), which is her primary modality in her clinical practice. Her passion is to help healthcare professionals increase their confidence in treating addictions, complex trauma, and the auto-immune effects of toxic stress in the body.