About Rich Liotta, Ph.D.

About Me

Rich Liotta, Ph.D.

Psychologist • Author • Nature Photographer • Guide in Life’s Later Chapters

I’m Dr. Rich Liotta, and these days I think of myself as a guide as much as a practitioner. I am embracing the richness of this phase of life, integrating long-held insights while reflecting more deeply on what truly matters.

You could say I’m semi-retired. But really, I’m refocusing, realigning, and shifting priorities so I can offer what I have learned. After 40 years as a Psychologist, Trainer, and Consultant deeply immersed in transformational psychology, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Neuro-Semantics, Ericksonian Hypnosis, and integrative change work, I now find myself walking a new path. A quieter, deeper one. I’ve stepped back from the busyness of professional roles, not in retreat, but in return to the essence of what has always mattered most: growth, authenticity, soulful connection, and meaningful contribution.

My energy now goes into sharing what I’ve learned, in ways that inspire others to age with presence, depth, and a renewed sense of inner vitality. Through my writing, my nature photography, my audio meditations, visual reflections (tools designed for soulful evolution), and the offerings I share on the Enrichments for Mind & Spirit Facebook page and on the new Steps, Stones, and Soul website, I’m distilling decades of reflection and experience into something both useful and evocative. I’m shaping psychological wisdom, spiritual curiosity, and the lived richness of my own journey into practices and insights that carry resonance and meaning.

My journey has been richly varied through clinical work, psychological assessment, research, teaching, training, consulting, and photography. I’ve guided others through transition and transformation while living a life of continual inquiry and creativity. But what has always unified my work is a central truth: people are capable of more than they believe, especially when they align with their true nature and their deep self that longs to grow, connect, and become.

That belief is still my compass. I now express it through essays, blog reflections, visual storytelling, and processes for conscious self-discovery. The tools I once taught, mindful reframing, language-based change, systemic insight, the art of presence are now gifts I share with those seeking clarity, depth, and forward motion at any stage of life’s unfolding journey.

As someone who has faced personal health challenges, losses, and major life transitions, and who has counseled others through life’s changes, I’ve come to a guiding principle “just move.” Just move physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually and shifts will happen. Movement is life’s invitation to engage and evolve. Aging well, to me, is about embracing what comes, conscious vitality, and the richness of being. Living fully and soulfully is about attunement to meaning, to beauty, to what truly matters.

Photography remains a deep love. It’s my contemplative practice. It’s a dialogue with nature and a mirror of the meaning within us as much as around us. In my images, I aim to capture more than scenery. I try to reveal the symbolic landscapes we all walk: cairns marking the path, light filtering through uncertainty, the soft resilience of moss and stone.

Steps, Stones, and Soul is the culmination of these threads. It is a place for seekers, reflectors, and those at the threshold of change. Whether you’re navigating midlife, later adulthood, illness, transition, or simply longing for soulfulness, authenticity, and depth, I welcome you. My goal is to offer perspective, spark inner dialogue, and walk beside you in spirit as you move forward on your own trail.

This is what I bring forward now. A tapestry of insight, a touchstone of encouragement, and a steady voice reminding you that your journey is still unfolding. You have more to discover, give, and become than you may yet imagine.

Let’s walk this next path together with presence, purpose, and a sense of wonder.