Elizabeth Housden
Compassionate counsellor for stress and trauma
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Housden is a BACP counsellor who brings 12 years of direct counselling experience and a long history in mental health work. She offers a calm, compassionate presence where people can talk about stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, low self-esteem and depression. Elizabeth aims to help clients feel heard and begin to find clearer ways forward.
Her style is gentle and practical. She works at the client’s pace and adapts what happens in sessions to suit each person.
Background and approach
Conversations focus on what is most troubling now and on manageable steps to reduce distress and build coping skills. Elizabeth uses an integrative approach, drawing on a range of evidence-based techniques to match individual needs. That means she might use different ways of working depending on the issue, session goals and what the client prefers.
She explains options and collaborates on a plan. Her background includes work in schools, specialist services and community settings, and she has experience with adults and young people. She also describes having personal lived experience of overcoming challenges, which she says helps her connect with clients in an empathetic way.
Sessions address practical concerns such as panic attacks, addiction, codependency, blended family issues, attachment and adoption-related matters, guilt and shame, midlife questions and post-traumatic stress. Elizabeth accepts international clients and offers sessions in English.
What Elizabeth works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches and how online therapy works
Elizabeth uses an integrative model, which means she draws on a few evidence-based techniques to suit each person. One common approach focuses on practical coping skills and behavioural techniques to reduce panic, manage anxiety and improve mood. Another often-used method concentrates on processing traumatic events and their effects, helping people make sense of painful memories and reduce their ongoing impact.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss options, explain what each way of working involves, and agree a plan with the client based on goals and preferences. Changes can be made as therapy progresses so the work stays relevant and useful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a break at work. Live chat and messaging suit shorter check-ins, people who prefer writing, or when being on camera is difficult. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around daily life and geographical limits while still allowing regular therapeutic contact with registered or accredited professionals.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
