Couple & Family Therapist
Liz Brenner, LICSW, has over 35 years of experience doing family, couple and individual therapy in child psychiatric inpatient, residential, home-based and private practice settings. She was faculty at the Family Institute of Cambridge (FIC) from 2003 until 2009 when it closed. At that time, Liz was the Director of the Intensive Program in Family Systems Therapies at FIC. She created Therapy Training Boston to continue to provide post graduate training in the tradition of the Family Institute of Cambridge. In her role as Director of Therapy Training Boston, she is the primary instructor of TTB’s Intensive Certificate Program in Couple and Family Therapy, facilitates the annual Master Series in Couples Therapy, and hosts several workshops annually.
Liz is also the co-director of the Harvard Cambridge Health Alliance Treating Couples Conference and a teaching associate for Harvard Medical School providing family therapy training to staff at Cambridge Health Alliance in the Couple and Family Therapy Program. In 2017, she received the award for the Greatest Contribution to Social Work Practice from the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
Liz has written two book chapters on doing intensive home-based family therapy. During the pandemic, she wrote a short article in the New England Journal for Relational and Systemic Therapy called “Couple Therapy in the Absence of Presence: Translating Presence to the Screen.” The Family Process journal published her 2023 article with colleagues Richard Schwartz and Carol Becker, “The Development of the Internal Family Systems Model: Honoring Contributions from Family Systems Therapies.”
