Welcome. I’m Liz Fletcher, LCSW, the founder of Big Sky Counseling, Inc., and a therapist empowering high achievers, women, and those in helping professions.
I’ve worked with people in many mental health contexts and across the spectrum of human experience. As my practice has evolved, though, I have come to focus on certain populations and experiences.
This doesn’t mean that I never work with those outside of these groups! These are simply special areas of practice where I have extensive experience, where I’ve done more research and continuing education, and where my own lived experience gives me some particular insight.
About My Experience & Education
I was born in southeastern Oklahoma and grew up all over Oklahoma and South Louisiana. After completing bachelor’s degrees in Spanish and Theatre, I worked in social services in Fort Worth, Texas, where I fell in love with social work. I earned my master’s degree in social work in 2007 from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, and moved back to Oklahoma City.
Since then, I have practiced in a wide variety of settings, including inpatient psychiatric care, intensive outpatient/partial hospitalization, integrative medicine physicians’ practices, home-based, and private practice. My work has focused on individual and family therapy with adolescents (ages 16 and up) and adults in English and Spanish.
I have taught adjunct classes for masters of social work students at the University of Oklahoma Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work. I have worked in crisis management, disaster response and debriefings for groups of all backgrounds, and I have taught classes on mindfulness, forgiveness, managing difficult relationships, and other topics for groups from churches to private service-sector companies.
My patients are individuals and families across the spectrum of social class, race, physical ability, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ethnicity, and philosophical/spiritual beliefs.
I’ve worked with people with complicated legal histories, undocumented status, physical disabilities, people who only speak Spanish, and many others. I have specifically sought out learning opportunities for working with oppressed populations, and I welcome patients from all backgrounds, belief systems, and experiences.
I’m driven by my passionate interest in people and their stories and by my desire to understand how painful experiences shape us.
These experiences shape us in ways that strengthen us and help us survive as well as in ways that keep us trapped in cycles we wish we could escape.
I love the profound connection that happens in therapy.
I especially feel humbled by the hospitality I am continually, graciously extended as people who have been deeply wounded in relationships invite me into their most vulnerable spaces. I love that I never, ever take that hospitality and courage for granted, and I love that I will never know all there is to know. I will spend my whole career learning and still always have more to learn.