Background:
Liz is an ACA registered Integrative Counsellor who offers inclusive, affirming and socially-aware counselling. She has worked in a range of counselling, mentoring, and crisis-intervention roles, supporting people across different life stages, identities, and experiences. Liz also brings lived experience of chronic illness and invisible grief, which deeply informs her compassionate, thoughtful, and anti-oppressive approach to counselling.
Specialty:
Liz specialises in supporting people experiencing anxiety, depression and stress, grief and loss, relationship challenges, and understanding past addictive behaviours. She also works with people exploring cultural identity, neurodivergence, and the impacts of marginalisation. Liz has particular experience supporting LGBTQIA+ clients, people living with chronic illness, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Approach:
Liz takes a non-pathologizing, trauma-informed approach that centres safety, agency, and your own pace. Drawing from a range of therapeutic frameworks, Liz works collaboratively with you to make sense of your experiences, explore meaning and gain insight into your patterns. Liz values your strengths, differences, resilience and sees you as a whole person who might be navigating complex and sometimes unfair circumstances. She sees counselling as a shared process, where you can reconnect with yourself and regain a sense of choice, clarity and direction.
Perspective:
Liz believes that everyone is inherently worthy, even in moments when that feels hard to believe. She values genuine connection, fairness, and honouring complexity. Liz aims to create a space where you can show up authentically as yourself, understand your experiences in context, and gently reconnect with who you are beneath pressure, expectations, and survival strategies.
How to Book
- Think about your goals for counselling, and which counsellor might be a good match
- Send an email to the counsellor you’d like to work with requesting an appointment
- In the rare event you don’t hear from your counsellor within 24 hours, please call us
- Not sure who might be the right fit for you? Call us and we’re happy to make a recommendation
Intake Process
- Initial appointments are $70 for individuals, or $80 for couples
- Due to our counsellor’s busy schedules, they cannot do intakes over the phone
- Your intake session will include discussing what supports you need, your goals for counselling, and to decide whether your counsellor is a good match for you
- If you decide that the fit isn’t right, you can ask to be referred to someone else – no offence will be taken!
Important Notice
There are some people that our counsellors can’t work with – not because we don’t want to, but because we want you to have the best possible care.
If you currently experience domestic violence, are having a mental health crisis, are experiencing severe substance dependency issues, or other acute crises, we can’t provide you with the level of support you deserve. However, we will use your initial appointment to connect you with places that specialise in these issues, so you can get the best possible care.
All Rough Patch counsellors manage their own scheduling and administration. Click on a profile below to read more and send an email enquiry. In the rare event you don’t hear from a counsellor within 24 hours, please call us on 02 7226 0809
All of our counsellors generously reduce their usual fees to provide affordable mental healthcare to our community. They do not receive government rebates or funding to provide their services.
