About Elizabeth
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Elleson is a PACFA clinician with ten years' experience across public, NGO and personal settings. She brings a warm, relational style and a practical focus on calming the body and mind. Lizzie works with people who are struggling with anxiety, stress and the long effects of trauma.
Her early work as a drug and alcohol clinician showed her how often addiction and unresolved childhood suffering are linked. That experience shaped her interest in trauma and led to further study in mindfulness-integrated approaches and somatic-informed practice.
Background and approach
Lizzie later worked at a national centre supporting people with complex trauma and disability. She has supported people from marginalised communities and those who identify as neurodivergent, and has particular experience with chronic emotional overwhelm and compassion fatigue. Lizzie also provides coaching for people managing PMDD and its effects on daily life.
In sessions she aims to be interactive and creative while staying grounded in what helps day-to-day functioning. She draws on attachment-based, client-centred and mindfulness approaches, along with skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, to build practical coping tools. Lizzie tailors the pace and focus of therapy to each person's needs.
She helps people build steadier emotional regulation, clearer communication, and more ease in relationships with themselves and others.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Attachment-based therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps with trust, closeness and working through abandonment or attachment wounds. Client-centred therapy puts your experience at the centre and prioritises empathic listening and collaboration to help you feel understood and make choices that fit your life. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, or DBT, offers clear coping skills for intense emotions, distress tolerance and better emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lizzie will talk with you about your needs, goals and preferences and adapt techniques from these approaches. The therapist and client plan the pace and methods together so therapy fits the person, not the other way round.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you use visual cues and deeper conversational work. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skills practice and when a shorter contact suits your day. These options make it easier to maintain consistency and fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Body image
- 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
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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