Elizabeth McKenzie, BACP

Elizabeth McKenzie is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with three years' experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, relationships, trauma and abuse, anger, self-esteem and other life challenges. She also supports people dealing with grief, addictions, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, career changes, bipolar and depression. Sessions are held in English and she does not take international clients.

Elizabeth takes a straightforward, person-focused approach. She aims to make the first contact easy and practical. In sessions she encourages people to talk about what feels too big to handle alone and looks at what matters most to each person. The focus is on listening without judgment and helping people notice their own responses to difficult situations.

Her background includes work in the charity sector supporting people affected by domestic and sexual violence. That experience shaped her attention to careful listening and to practical ways of responding when someone feels unheard. She draws on this experience when helping people manage anger, trauma responses and relationship difficulties.

Elizabeth uses a mix of well-established counselling approaches. She draws on client-centred work to build a collaborative relationship, cognitive behavioural ideas to spot patterns that fuel anger or anxiety, and psychodynamic thinking to look at deeper themes that reappear across life. Solution-focused and trauma-focused methods also appear as tools when they fit the client's needs.

People who come to her can expect clear, short-term goals when useful, and time to reflect on longer-standing patterns when needed. She encourages practical steps between sessions and checks in on what helps in everyday life. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.

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