About Lisa
Lisa Studdert is an ACA counsellor practising in Australia who brings five years of clinical work to sessions. She trained in counselling and has experience in emergency mental health care, which helps her stay calm and present when people are distressed. Lisa offers a steady, respectful presence for people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety.
Her style is person-centred and attachment-based. She listens first, then helps clients name what they want to change.
Background and approach
Lisa adapts common therapeutic tools to each person's needs and pace rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. In practice she uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy alongside emotionally focused and somatic work. This mix helps with anxiety, self-esteem struggles, motivation and patterns that keep repeating in relationships or daily life.
Lisa also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, and those navigating neurodivergence such as ADHD or autism. She aims to work without pressure to 'fix' someone, instead helping them manage symptoms, improve emotional regulation and build clearer communication habits. Sessions are offered through video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging and are tailored to what each person needs.
People who are ready to begin fill in a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people identify their values and take small steps toward them despite difficult thoughts or feelings. It is useful for persistent anxiety, low motivation and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with anxiety and stress by teaching coping skills and behavioural experiments. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections; it can help people improve how they relate to others and understand their emotional responses.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Lisa will discuss options and try methods that match each person's goals, needs and preferences. Over the first few sessions she reviews what feels helpful and adjusts the plan together so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls let most of the face-to-face work continue at a distance, while phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is low or a camera feels uncomfortable. Live chat and text-based messaging suit shorter check-ins, written reflection or people who prefer typing to speaking. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work and family life and to keep consistency in care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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