About Liisa
Liisa Hiltunen is a PACFA counsellor with 20 years of experience. She offers a calm, practical approach to stress, anxiety, relationship concerns and life transitions. Liisa blends counselling with coaching skills to help people find clearer direction and manageable steps forward.
Liisa combines two Master’s degrees in counselling and business coaching with a background in design. This mix shapes a practical style that uses goal-setting, creative problem-solving and plain conversation.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what matters now and on small changes that can make daily life easier. Her work draws on evidence-informed methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and mindfulness, with attention to attachment and life story. She aims to help people reconnect with their values and build routines that reduce anxiety and improve wellbeing.
Liisa has experience supporting people through relocation, cultural adjustment and identity shifts from living and working in many countries. She also works with leaders and professionals who want clearer thinking, sustainable performance and less overwhelm. People can expect a collaborative, trauma-aware style that balances practical tools with deeper reflection.
Liisa speaks plainly, sets realistic goals and helps clients track progress. Reaching out for support is a first step, and she offers guided, structured sessions to help people move forward with confidence.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It helps with anxiety, life transitions and finding direction. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) looks at links between thoughts, feelings and behaviour, and uses practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety symptoms. Attachment-Based Therapy attends to how early relationships shape current patterns and helps people build more supported ways of relating and managing emotion.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Liisa will discuss different methods and tailor sessions to a person’s goals, pace and preferences. The therapist and client decide together whether to focus on skills, values work, problem-solving or exploring relationship patterns.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions suit quieter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, homework, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counselling into work, family and life commitments while keeping the focus on practical steps and steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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