Elizabeth McKenzie
Warm, practical counselling for life’s hard moments
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth McKenzie is a counsellor who supports people facing stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and major life changes. She also helps with grief, addictions, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strain, anger, career concerns, bipolar and depression, and compassion fatigue. Elizabeth works in English and practises from the United Kingdom.
Her approach is warm and down-to-earth. She aims to make reaching out as easy as possible and focuses on what each person brings to sessions.
Background and approach
Elizabeth creates a calm, non-judgemental space where people can say things that feel hard to voice. The first conversations are often about listening and understanding what matters most to the client. Elizabeth uses a mix of therapeutic styles to suit different needs.
She draws on client-centred ways to prioritise the person's experience, cognitive behavioural techniques for practical steps and patterns, and trauma-focused ideas when past harm affects daily life. She also uses psychodynamic thinking to look at repeating patterns and solution-focused techniques to set clear, short-term goals. Her background includes work in the charity sector supporting people affected by domestic and sexual violence.
That experience shaped a practice that values careful listening and making space for people who feel unheard. Elizabeth has three years of professional experience and holds BACP registration. Many people find it helpful to try a few sessions to see how the relationship feels.
Elizabeth aims to support people to recognise themselves, make practical changes, and build a life that fits their values and needs.
What Elizabeth works with
How Elizabeth works
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Sessions & fees
Therapeutic approaches for online counselling
Client-centred therapy puts the person at the heart of the work. The counsellor listens without judgement and follows the concerns the person brings, helping them to feel understood and to find their own direction. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns and reduce symptoms such as anxiety or low mood. Trauma-focused therapy helps people who have experienced harm to process difficult memories and reduce their ongoing impact on daily life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The counsellor will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then they will shape sessions together. It is normal for the method to evolve as trust grows and priorities change.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a visual connection matters. Phone sessions can fit into a short break and need less bandwidth. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or reflect in writing. These options make it easier to work around work, family and mobility needs while accessing registered or accredited professionals and therapists in the United Kingdom.
| 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
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
