- Stress and anxiety
- Life transitions
- Values focused
About Liisa
Liisa Hiltunen is a PACFA counsellor with 20 years of practical experience. She combines counselling and business coaching skills to help people manage stress, anxiety, relationships and big life changes. Her style is direct and compassionate, focused on helping clients find clearer direction and workable steps forward.
Liisa draws on a mix of therapy approaches and practical tools. She uses goal-setting, creative problem-solving and design-thinking alongside talking therapy to help people sort priorities and make changes. Sessions often focus on values, meaning and small reliable habits that add up over time.
Her background includes two master’s degrees in counselling and business coaching, plus a Bachelor of Fine Arts in design. That mix shapes a practical, creative way of looking at problems and solutions. She also brings workplace coaching experience for executives, which informs support around work stress and leadership pressures.
Liisa has lived and worked across Australia, the USA, the UK, Europe and Asia. That international experience informs work with people facing relocation, cultural adjustment and identity shifts. She is also experienced supporting those dealing with adoption and foster care, abandonment, blended family issues, ageing and caregiver stress.
Her approach is trauma-informed and collaborative. Clients are treated as the experts in their own lives while Liisa offers perspective, structure and tools. She encourages realistic steps that fit everyday life and supports people to reconnect with purpose and confidence.
How Liisa’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and choose values-based actions rather than getting stuck. It is useful for anxiety, stress and finding direction. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns and can be helpful for relationship concerns, abandonment and attachment issues. Client-Centred Therapy creates a supportive space where the client leads the conversation and the counsellor reflects and clarifies to help insight and self-directed change.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Liisa will talk with the client about their needs, goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working that fit. This is a collaborative process and she adjusts methods as progress and priorities become clearer.
Session formats are not specified in the original biography, so please confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make therapy easier to fit into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. They also help people maintain continuity of care during moves or life transitions. If you have questions about how an online session would work for your situation, check the booking details when you complete the matching questionnaire.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Liisa help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and self-esteem issues, plus coping with life changes and coaching for direction and balance.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is direct and compassionate, mixing evidence-based counselling with practical tools like SMART goal-setting and creative problem-solving.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of professional experience working across personal and workplace challenges.
What credentials and location are listed?
Liisa is listed as PACFA and practises in Australia.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can international clients work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
How do I start a therapy process?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.