In-Person Therapy Intensives & RLT Retreats in Brevard, NC
Living connected to yourself, others, and the world around you.
Create space to pause, reconnect, and live with intention.
What if a good life isn't something we achieve—
but a way of living that we actively practice each and every day?
Modern life gives us endless ways to stay busy, distracted, and productive. We move quickly. We consume constantly. We sit too much. We scroll. We accomplish. Somewhere along the way, we find ourselves with less time for the things that make us feel alive—curiosity, creativity, meaningful relationships, and the simple experience of being present in our own lives.
The life you want is worth making room for.
You don’t necessarily need another thing on your calendar. Sometimes what you need is intentional time to pause, understand what’s happening, and practice another way forward.
You’ve built a life.
Does it feel like the life you want to live?
Maybe you’ve become very good at holding things together. You show up for work, family, your partner, and everyone who relies on you. But lately, you’ve been wondering where you fit into the life you’ve worked so hard to create.
Maybe you’re ready to feel more like yourself. To find your way back to one another. Or to make more room for the creativity, work, relationships, and experiences that make life meaningful.
Living Connected offers a different approach to therapy. Through focused individual and couples intensives, relational learning experiences, and retreats, you'll have space to explore what's no longer working, understand the patterns keeping you stuck, and begin practicing something different.
Practice boundaries, self-worth, honesty, and connection in your everyday relationships.
Reconnect with your values and intentionally create the next chapter of your life.
Begin. Learn. Practice. Live differently.
Meet Lisa rivers, bsw, mmft, lmftHello! I am Lisa.
I am so glad you are here.
My own search for a more connected and intentional life led me to Terry Real’s Relational Life Therapy (RLT), which profoundly changed how I understand relationships and ultimately transformed my clinical practice.
My training and experiences as a Relational Life Therapist and RLT Bootcamp Facilitator, alongside my own exploration of embodied, relational living, continued to shape that evolution. Over time, I realized I didn't just want to help others live differently. I wanted to live that way myself.
After years of building careers and businesses, caring for others and “stuff”, I began to recognize something I had been teaching all along: our lives are finite and connection requires presence. So I have become increasingly interested in a different kind of living. Less. Slower. Deeper. More embodied. More intentional. More alive. More connected to the moment, the people, the land around me.
Living Connected grew out of that journey. It isn't a prescription for how you should live. It's an invitation to become curious about how you're living—and what might become possible if you chose differently.
Get to know yourself more deeply, including the younger and protective parts of you.
Understand the patterns that shape how you live, love, work, and relate.
You’re ready to:
Find your path toward living connected.
The Individualexplore the support and experiences that align with where you are and where you want to go
The Relationship
The EntrepreneurFor those ready to look beneath the roles and expectations they've carried to reconnect with who they are, what they need, and how they want to live.
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For couples who love each other but want to stop repeating old patterns and find their way back to connection.
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For those who dream, build, lead, and create—and want a life that makes room for more than work and achievement.
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What to ExpectFrom exploration to everyday life
You don't have to know exactly what you need before reaching out. We'll figure that out together.
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Complete a short inquiry form to get started. From there, we'll meet for a 90-minute Exploration & Strategy Session to explore what's bringing you here, clarify your goals, and begin identifying a path forward.
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Together, we'll determine the next step that best supports your goals, whether that's a focused individual or couples intensive, continued therapeutic support, or another experience aligned with your needs.
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Bring what you've learned into your relationships, work, and everyday experiences. With new awareness, practical tools, and meaningful next steps, you can continue practicing and growing long after our time together.
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Diane Ackerman
Ready to Begin the Journey?
Whether you're looking to better understand yourself, reconnect with your partner, or explore a different way of living, there's a place to begin.