Looking for Hope Heals Counseling? You’re in the right place! We’ve changed our name to Apricity Counseling. Betsy Nuismer has also changed her name to Liza Annette, but she’s still the same great therapist.

About Me

Hope lives in the midst of pain.

Apricity Counseling provides expert therapy for your marriage or for yourself.

Therapy Services

Apricity Counseling provides therapy for individuals and couples in West Michigan in-person and virtually via telehealth.

  • couples-therapy

    Couples Sessions

    Designed for any couple, whether dating, engaged, or married, these sessions allow for two people to grow in the same direction with the same set of tools.

  • individual therapy

    Individual Sessions

    Individual therapy sessions are designed for just you and your therapist to work on any issues you choose.

  • relationship counseling therapy

    Relationship Therapy

    We help many kinds of relationships work through a difficult situation, strengthen communication, or gain insight into family dynamics.

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Apricity: noun (rare): the warmth of the sun in winter.

  • You have changed us, through your work and ours we are totally different than before. So much better. We have hope when 6 months ago we would have divorced over this one conversation.

    Anonymous Clients

  • Apricity Counseling provided individual and marriage therapy for my wife and I. Their experience in these areas helped us grow as individuals and as a couple. The time spent with time them improved our communications and serenity a great deal. I highly recommend Apricity for either of these types of therapies.

    Rob

  • Liza was a master at guiding us through difficult conversations. We have felt more progress and connection than ever before, and we’ve been through a few therapists!

    Anonymous clients

  • Liza was the only person who helped me feel like I am not crazy. Thank you.

    Susan

  • My fiancee and I had been in a relationship for six years prior to being engaged and we believed our experience of premarital counseling would simply affirm things we already knew. Very quickly, our time with Liza made us realize there was a lot more we could do as a couple to ensure we were preparing for a healthy, honest, and loving marriage. Having a third party perspective and voice to broaden our communication skills and awareness was immensely helpful. We’re now much more confident in how we approach life’s challenges and successes together!

    Mike + Abbey

  • Liza is a clear thinking, perceptive listener. Her ability to identify stress, anxiety, and unhealthy responses to every day issues result in her unique style of nonjudgmental, straightforward truth telling with compassion. Her insight for me was profound. And the application brought me logically, emotionally, and spiritually to a clearing of my faulty thinking and eventually to a solution to a serious family dynamic.

    Lynn

  • Liza showed me how to take care of and respect myself. She taught me that I have value apart from just what I can give to others. She was my listening ear, my gentle rebuke and my shoulder to cry on. I have been to many counselors and wile none were bad I have never seen results like I have with Liza. She is the perfect combination of logical and empathetic, she is invested and truly cares and I am lucky to have found her.

    Ashley