About Liz
Liz Elshaw is a UK-based counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression and grief. She supports those facing parenting pressures, addiction concerns, ADHD-related challenges and relationship or family strain. Liz aims to make the first step into therapy straightforward and approachable for people who are worried or unsure.
Her style is warm and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on listening first and then finding practical ways forward. She makes space for feelings and for the body’s experience, using somatic ideas alongside talking therapies to notice how stress shows up physically.
Background and approach
Liz draws on several approaches to suit different needs. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult thoughts while building values-led action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to look at thinking patterns that fuel anxiety or low mood.
Attachment-based ideas help when early relationships affect current trust and connection. She has six years of professional therapeutic experience and holds BACP registration, which means she meets the professional standards set by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She offers sessions in English to people in the United Kingdom.
Practical formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Sessions are arranged through a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to the therapist’s availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how feelings and stress appear in the body. Online sessions can guide people to notice breath, posture and bodily sensations and use simple groundings to reduce overwhelm. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people live by their values while accepting difficult thoughts. Online ACT sessions often include exercises to clarify values and short behavioural experiments to try between meetings.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk through options with each person and try different techniques to see what helps. Goals, preferences and how a person responds shape which methods are used over time rather than a fixed plan from the start.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text messaging suit people who prefer written communication or need brief check-ins. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties or mobility needs while keeping the focus on helpful therapeutic work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English