About Liisa
Liisa Hiltunen is a PACFA counsellor with a somatic-informed approach and 20 years of experience. She blends body-aware methods with practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety and relationship strain. Liisa aims to create a calm, direct space where clients can notice what their body and mind are telling them and take steps forward.
She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside somatic techniques. Sessions often include grounding exercises, values work and simple tools to break unhelpful habits.
Background and approach
Liisa also uses narrative and client-centred methods to help people make sense of their stories and choices. Her work covers life transitions, coping with change, self-esteem and everyday pressures of leadership or caregiving. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, body image concerns, divorce and the long-term effects of chronic stress.
Practical coaching skills such as SMART goal-setting are used when useful. Liisa has a background in counselling and business coaching plus a Bachelor of Fine Arts in design. That mix informs a creative, problem-solving style that looks at work, life direction and values.
She describes therapy as a collaborative process and invites clients to test what helps them in small steps. Sessions are offered in English and are available online by video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the platform.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Liisa combines somatic work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people connect body sensations with thoughts and values. Somatic methods focus on noticing breath, tension and movement so clients can interrupt stress patterns and feel more grounded in daily life. ACT helps people clarify what matters, accept difficult inner experiences and take practical action aligned with their values.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at relationship patterns and how early bonds shape current responses. This approach helps people understand connection styles and try new ways of relating that feel safer and more effective. Finding the right mix of approaches is a shared process; the therapist works collaboratively to decide which methods fit a person's needs and goals over time.
Online therapy with Liisa is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options let people access sessions from home, fit therapy into busy schedules and use shorter or longer formats as needed. The online format supports steady progress through practical exercises, grounding practices and values-based coaching between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English