About Elizabeth
Elizabeth "Lizz" Benton uses a warm, client-centred approach to help people manage anxiety and relationship concerns. She draws on practical therapies to help people feel steadier and more able to cope with day-to-day stress. She keeps sessions straightforward and focused.
Lizz listens first, then helps people spot patterns in thinking and behaviour that make problems worse. Together they set small, realistic goals that fit into busy lives. Her style mixes acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness.
Background and approach
That combination helps people notice difficult thoughts, experiment with new responses, and build valued routines. Attachment-focused work is used when relationship history affects current trust and closeness. Over four years she has supported people facing family difficulties, separation, parenting strain, career stress and compassion fatigue.
She also works with issues such as low self-esteem, sleep problems, anger, chronic illness and neurodiversity-related concerns including autism and Asperger syndrome. Lizz holds BACP registration, which is shown as BACP in her credentials. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.
The main ways to meet are video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Many people come wanting clear tools and everyday changes. Lizz aims to make therapy practical and collaborative, so people leave with strategies they can use between sessions.
Approach-focused online support that fits your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and still take actions that matter to them. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions when people want to live in line with their values. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns; it often helps with sleep problems, worry and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy pays attention to how early relationship patterns affect trust, closeness and conflict today and can be helpful for intimacy-related and family issues.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and adapt methods to match the person's needs, goals and preferences. This is a collaborative process where techniques are tested and adjusted over time so the plan feels manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into life. Video lets people work face to face from different places. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be simpler for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging suit brief updates, reflection between meetings or times when typing is easier than speaking. These options help people access consistent support around busy schedules and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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