Liz Elshaw, BACP

Liz Elshaw is a UK trained counsellor with six years of professional therapeutic experience. She works with people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, depression, ADHD and addictions, as well as relationship and family concerns including blended family issues. She holds BACP registration.

She focuses on straightforward, practical conversations. Sessions aim to identify what feels hardest now and find small steps that make daily life more manageable. People often come to talk about low mood, trouble sleeping, or tensions that come from combining households and parenting roles.

Her approach draws on several well-known methods. She uses cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy techniques to help people choose actions that match their values. Attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused work inform how she talks about relationship patterns and emotional responses.

Liz keeps sessions client-centred. That means listening first, then suggesting approaches that fit the person in front of her. She pays attention to how neurodiversity, chronic illness or caring responsibilities affect everyday life and problem solving.

Her way of working is direct and practical. Expect clear explanations, simple exercises to try between sessions, and regular checks on what is helping. She asks people to set small, achievable goals and reviews them together.

If someone wants to begin, the next step is to use the site’s matching process and book an initial session. She works in English and does not take international clients.