About Lisa
Lisa Studdert is an ACA counsellor based in Australia with five years' experience in mental health care. She trained in counselling and has worked in emergency mental health settings, which helped her stay calm and present when people feel overwhelmed. Lisa focuses on practical ways to reduce stress and anxiety and to build steadier emotional ground.
Her approach is gentle and down-to-earth. She combines somatic work - paying attention to the body - with evidence-based talk approaches like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
Background and approach
Sessions are person-centred and attachment-aware, so clients are treated as whole people rather than problems to fix. Lisa often helps people who are wrestling with the aftermath of trauma or abuse, and those struggling with self-esteem, motivation or ADHD-related challenges. She also supports people facing chronic pain, caregiver stress, and communication or family-of-origin issues.
Her focus includes abandonment, attachment, dissociation and co-morbidity when these are relevant to the presenting concerns. In a session she listens first, then offers tools you can try between appointments. That might include grounding and breathing practices, gentle body-based noticing, values work from ACT, or practical CBT strategies for anxiety.
Pace and consent guide every step. Lisa aims to create a non-judgemental space where people can make small changes that add up. She explains options clearly and works with each person to decide what feels manageable and useful.
How somatic work and evidence-based therapy translate online
Somatic work invites you to notice sensations in the body and how they relate to feeling and memory. Online sessions can guide gentle grounding, breath awareness and movement-based noticing so you learn ways to calm a racing system or reduce tension.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on identifying your values and taking small actions that match them. It uses simple exercises to reduce struggling with thoughts and feelings and supports change through committed behaviours. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people understand how early connection shapes current reactions and communication.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will listen to your goals, try tools in session, and adjust methods based on what helps. This way you and the counsellor decide together what feels useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. That means you can work from home, during a break or while travelling within Australia. The variety of formats makes it easier to use body-based practices, talk through issues, and access support when life is busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English