Elizabeth "Lizzie" Elleson

Elizabeth "Lizzie" Elleson is a PACFA clinical psychotherapist with ten years' experience across public, NGO and private sectors in Australia. She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, addictions, self-esteem and relationship concerns, and supports people through life changes and compassion fatigue. Sessions are delivered in English.

Lizzie's early work as a drug and alcohol clinician shaped how she sees addiction and trauma as connected. That experience led her to work with people affected by complex trauma and disability, and with marginalised communities. She describes her style as interactive and relational, with attention to the body and mindful awareness.

In private practice she focuses on helping highly sensitive people recover from complex trauma and offers coaching for people managing premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Lizzie draws on approaches such as attachment-based work, client-centred therapy, DBT, Jungian ideas and mindfulness to structure sessions.

Her work often looks at patterns that come from early attachment and family of origin issues. She talks through emotional and behavioural effects of trauma, and helps people learn skills to cope with distress and improve communication.

People come to her for support with body image, chronic pain or illness, addiction concerns, dissociation, codependency and relationship difficulties. She asks about each person’s goals and crafts how sessions proceed with them.

How her approaches translate to online work

Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and early bonds. Online sessions can explore how those patterns affect current relationships and coping, and help people recognise and shift repeated responses. Client-centred therapy centres the person’s concerns and uses listening and reflection to help them find their own solutions; online sessions can keep the same conversational, person-led approach while tracking progress between meetings. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships; taught skills can be practised between online sessions and reviewed together.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match the person’s goals, preferences and the issues they bring. Decisions about focus and pacing are revisited as work progresses.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when life is hectic, and remove travel time. It also gives space to review homework, practice skills, and bring in somatic awareness exercises between sessions. Appropriately qualified or registered therapists adapt practical arrangements so sessions fit everyday routines.