About Elizabeth
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Elleson uses a relational, trauma-informed approach to help people find steadier footing. She is a PACFA counsellor with ten years' experience across public, NGO and personal settings. Lizzie writes in a warm, practical way and works collaboratively to calm distress and rebuild safety in the body and mind.
Lizzie began her clinical journey as a drug and alcohol clinician in the public sector. That work made clear the strong links between addiction and unresolved early trauma.
How Elizabeth works
It also shaped her commitment to people who have been overlooked by services. Over time she trained in mindfulness-integrated methods and other trauma-informed ideas. Those trainings informed work at a national centre focused on complex trauma and disability.
There she supported people facing enduring impacts of trauma, and developed ways to work with strong feelings and dissociation. In independent practice Lizzie focuses on stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem and depression. She also supports people dealing with addiction, body image concerns, relationship and communication problems, and compassion fatigue.
Lizzie has additional experience with attachment wounds, abandonment, avoidant personality patterns, and aspects of kink and alternative sexual culture. Her style is interactive and creative, with an emphasis on somatic mindfulness and client-centred listening. She aims to help people notice what their body is telling them, develop clearer boundaries, and build coping skills that fit everyday life.
Sessions are practical and paced to each person's needs.
Elizabeth lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Elizabeth works with
The areas below are the ones Elizabeth selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
Training and background
| Register | PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy for trauma and anxiety
Elizabeth blends attachment-based thinking with client-centred and DBT-informed techniques to support people online. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current connection and trust, helping to repair patterns that cause repeated hurt. Client-centred therapy focuses on real listening and pacing, creating space for people to tell their story and choose goals. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance and clearer communication, which can be useful for intense moods and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to match methods to their goals, needs and preferences. That means trying practical skills, exploring relational patterns, or slowing down to work with body awareness as required.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can be lighter on bandwidth, chat or messaging suit shorter check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping treatment consistent and accessible.
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