Welcome, I’m Alice.
About Alice
I'm a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Somatic Psychotherapist. I built this practice around one belief: your relationship with food and your body was never the problem - it was the solution your nervous found. I work with queer and BIPOC folks whose relationship with food, body image, and self has been shaped by navigating a world that made survival feel safer than being fully in their bodies. My approach brings together somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and breathwork into an integrated method I call Body. Parts. Breath. It's not talk therapy with some deep breathing tacked on; it's a structured way of working with the nervous system, protective parts, and the breath to create lasting change.
Why I do this work
A month after finishing my MSW, I moved from the Bay Area to San Diego, CA convinced I could outrun what I was feeling. I couldn't. What followed was years of deep body dissatisfaction, an eating disorder I didn't recognize in myself, even with a graduate degree in mental health, and a slow, nonlinear road back to my body.
I didn't fit what the medical field considers "someone with an eating disorder." I know now that's not unusual. Marginalized folks, particularly Black women and people of color, are chronically underdiagnosed because we don't fit the template. That invisibility is its own kind of harm.
Recovery brought me to somatic work. Not as a clinical framework, but as something I needed personally, a way to stop managing my body and start listening to her. That shift changed everything about how I practice.
I do this work because I've lived it. I know what it costs to perform wellness while falling apart underneath it and I know what it feels like to come home to your body after years of dissociation, dysregulation and disconnection.
Training & Credentials
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - Elizabeth Alice Cary - California & Florida
Virtual Private Practice Est. 2021 - Founder & CEO - Liberate Sacred Bodies, Inc.
IFS Informed Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification (Completing 2026) - The Embody Lab
Integrative Somatic Parts Work - Levels 1-3 - Fran D. Booth
Holosomatic Breathwork Trauma Informed Facilitator - Inner Camp