- ACT
- CBT
- Attachment focus
About Lisa
Lisa Papas is an ACA counsellor in Australia with 30 years of professional experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship and family concerns, addiction, and other life changes. She also lists blended family issues among her areas of focus.
She helps people talk through painful events and ongoing struggles. Sessions often start with what feels most urgent - sleep, mood, or relationship tension. Lisa uses clear, practical conversation rather than technical language. She aims to help clients notice what matters and find small, usable steps forward.
Lived experience and long practice inform her approach. She draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to address difficult thoughts and unhelpful behaviour patterns. Attachment-based ideas guide work around closeness, trust, and separation worries.
Her way of working is client-centred: the person sets priorities and pace. She asks questions, reflects what she hears, and helps people test new ways of relating to themselves and others. Sessions can include talking, behavioural experiments, and values-based exercises.
Clients often come with grief, chronic health problems, or major life transitions. Lisa also supports people dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiver stress, and intimacy-related concerns. She encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.
If someone wants to try a first session they are asked to use the online matching steps on the site. The process includes a short questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment so practical arrangements are clear from the start.
Therapeutic approaches used online and what they do
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts without getting locked into them. It focuses on values and small committed actions that move someone toward a life they care about, which can help with grief, anxiety and major life changes.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. It breaks problems into manageable parts and uses practical exercises to change sleep, mood and worry habits.
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past and current relationship patterns affect trust, intimacy and separation worries. It can help people who struggle with closeness or feel repeatedly let down by others.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and help choose or combine methods that suit the person’s needs. This is a collaborative process that may shift as issues change.
Session formats are not listed in the biography, so please confirm current online options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit appointments into busy weeks, allow shorter check-ins when time is limited, and remove travel time. The focus remains on practical ways to manage daily life and relationships while working through the issues that matter.
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Experience
30+ years
Listed in
Australia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, relationship and family concerns, addictions, sleep and mood problems among other issues.
What is her therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centred and practical. She uses conversational work, experiments and values-based exercises to address daily problems.
How much experience does she have?
She has 30 years of professional experience working with adults on a broad range of concerns.
What credential and location are listed?
She is listed as an ACA counsellor practising in Australia.
Which languages and international clients are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are offered?
The biography does not specify session formats. Please confirm current session options before booking.
How are costs handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start a first appointment?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is for adults and is not emergency care, mediation or legal advice. If you or a child are in danger, use the emergency numbers. Find someone else by name.