About Lisa
Lisa Russo is a PACFA counsellor based in Australia with ten years' experience supporting people through anxiety, stress and life changes. She offers a calm, listening presence and focuses on practical steps that help clients feel steadier. Her approach suits someone who wants clear tools and gentle encouragement rather than rushed advice.
Lisa draws on client-centred practice to prioritise each person's experience and goals. She uses cognitive behavioural techniques to help spot unhelpful thinking and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Attachment-informed ideas guide conversations about how early bonds shape current reactions and relationships. Sessions are conversational and paced to each client. Lisa listens first, then co-designs simple strategies for sleep, worry, low mood or burnout.
She also supports people dealing with grief, recovery after abuse, parenting pressures and workplace stress. Her background combines clinical counselling with support work in community settings. That mix gives practical knowledge of services and the everyday challenges people face when managing caring roles, chronic health issues or major life transitions.
People meet Lisa for short-term problem-focused work or longer-term exploration. She helps set realistic goals, practices new skills in session, and reviews progress together. The aim is to leave with clearer routines, calmer thinking and stronger coping options.
How therapy approaches work online
Lisa uses client-centred work to create a respectful, non-judgemental space where each person sets the pace and priorities. This approach helps when someone needs to be heard and wants therapy shaped around their goals rather than a fixed plan.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy to identify thinking patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. CBT involves simple exercises and practical tools you can try between sessions to change unhelpful habits and improve sleep, worry or mood.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa will discuss options and decide together which mix of client-centred listening and CBT techniques best fits the person's needs and preferences. The plan can change as goals or situations shift, keeping the process collaborative.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a full conversation and visual cues, phone can fit a short check-in or when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suit brief updates or continuing support between sessions. These choices aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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