About Liisa
Liisa Hiltunen uses a practical, person-centred approach that combines talking therapy with coaching tools. She is a PACFA counsellor with 20 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress and life transitions. Liisa writes in plain terms and aims to make sessions focused and useful from the start.
She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and mindfulness with client-centred listening. That mix is used to help people build clearer daily routines, reduce worry, and reconnect with what matters to them.
How Liisa works
Sessions often include simple exercises, goal-setting and problem-solving tasks to practise between meetings. Liisa has worked across different countries and brings experience in supporting people through relocation and cultural adjustment. Her background in business coaching also means she can help with work-related pressures, leadership stress and planning next steps in a career.
She applies an attachment-informed lens when relationship or separation concerns come up, and also supports issues such as self-esteem, body image and coping with illness. Practical tools are paired with reflective exploration to help people make steady changes. Liisa describes her style as thoughtful and direct, with room for creativity and meaning when clients want it.
She encourages short-term goals alongside deeper work, and treats clients as the experts in their own lives.
Liisa lists 11 ways of working on the entry:
What Liisa works with
The areas below are the ones Liisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | PACFA |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Australia |
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Online support options
Approach-focused online counselling and coaching
Liisa often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values and take meaningful action despite difficult thoughts and feelings. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress and decisions about life direction. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and build new coping habits through practical exercises and step-by-step behavioural changes.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Liisa will discuss options and match methods to your goals, preferences and everyday demands. That collaborative process means techniques are chosen to fit what you want to achieve rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into busy lives. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, live chat or text helps with short check-ins and written reflections. These formats provide flexibility for work breaks, parenting schedules, travel or when a shorter focused session is needed.
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