Elizabeth Ustabas
Calm, practical therapy for everyday struggles
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth Ustabas works with people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, ADHD and grief. She also supports issues around intimacy, anger, self-esteem, bipolar and depression. Her approach is straightforward and person-centred, with an emphasis on building a trusting working relationship before exploring changes.
Elizabeth sees each person as the expert on their own life. She draws on their strengths and practical goals to shape sessions. Conversations are calm and direct, aimed at making feelings and patterns easier to understand and manage.
Background and approach
With four years of experience she combines clinical work with teaching others. She holds BACP, which indicates membership of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. This background informs how she listens and how she teaches counselling skills to others.
Her practice is suited to people seeking help with emotional pain, behavioural concerns and life transitions. She pays attention to attachment, communication and control issues when these come up. Neurodivergent clients, including those with autism or Asperger Syndrome, are explicitly mentioned in her work history as people she supports to better understand themselves.
Elizabeth aims to make therapy manageable for busy lives. Sessions focus on clear, practical steps alongside deeper emotional work. She encourages collaboration so that therapy fits each person’s needs and pace.
What Elizabeth works with
Sessions & fees
How evidence-based methods translate to online therapy
Elizabeth works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on understanding patterns and building coping skills. One commonly used approach helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life experiences to reduce anxiety and low mood. Another approach focuses on emotional processing and safety when dealing with trauma, helping people gradually face difficult memories while keeping distress manageable.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Elizabeth will collaborate with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals and preferences. Sessions begin with a simple assessment and then try methods that can be adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or mobility limits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that is helpful. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can suit a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to write through thoughts between calls or to have more frequent brief contact. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on clear, goal-oriented therapy.
| 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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
