About Lisa
Lisa Russo is a PACFA-credentialled counsellor with ten years' experience supporting women through difficult life moments. She offers straightforward, practical help for stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, parenting pressures, trauma and recovery after domestic abuse. Lisa aims to make each session feel calm and manageable.
She listens closely and helps people name what is happening for them. Together they build simple tools for coping, managing emotions and handling day-to-day stressors.
How Lisa works
Her approach combines attachment-based ideas, client-centred conversation and cognitive behavioural tools. That means she pays attention to how relationships affect feelings, follows the client's lead in sessions, and teaches skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. Lisa also draws on emotionally-focused techniques and mindfulness practices.
These help people deepen emotional awareness, reduce overwhelm, and learn ways to stay present rather than getting stuck in worry or flashbacks. Sessions are practical and paced to suit the person in front of her. People can expect clear suggestions, at-home exercises and steady encouragement as they work toward stronger resilience and clearer choices.
She runs an independent practice in Australia and works with adults in English. Getting started is simple: complete a short questionnaire and schedule a time that suits you.
Lisa lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Lisa works with
The areas below are the ones Lisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
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
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
How therapeutic approaches translate to online counselling
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions use this lens to identify patterns in relationships and to practise different ways of relating and responding in day-to-day life.Client-centred therapy places the person’s experience at the centre. The therapist listens without judgement, mirrors what she hears and follows the client’s pace so people feel understood and can find their own solutions.
Cognitive behavioural approaches teach concrete skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. In online sessions this often involves short exercises, thought records and behavioural experiments to try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lisa will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest a combination of methods that fit those needs. Decisions are made together and adjusted as work progresses.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different routines and needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting or other commitments.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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