Louise Eliadis

Louise Eliadis is a PACFA clinical counsellor with more than 20 years working in mental health. She offers a calm, down-to-earth style that helps people handle stress, anxiety, anger and low self-esteem. Her approach is practical and person-focused, aimed at helping people manage life changes and feel steadier day to day.

Louise combines person-centred listening with evidence-based tools. She draws on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking and move toward clearer values. She also uses Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and Emotionally-Focused approaches when emotion regulation and relationships are central concerns.

Her practice pays attention to how past relationships shape present patterns. She helps people work through attachment and abandonment worries, family of origin themes, commitment and control problems, and the fallout of separation. Practical skills for coping, reducing impulsivity and easing isolation are part of the work.

Louise has delivered workshops across Australia on emotional regulation, sexual health and somatic connection. That experience feeds into how she structures sessions, with short exercises and everyday strategies people can use between meetings. Her training includes a Master of Health Sciences in Sexual Health and a Graduate Diploma of Counselling.

People who meet her find a therapist who listens without rush and offers clear, actionable steps. She supports clients as they build self-esteem, move through grief or addiction concerns, and reconnect mind and body.

How these approaches translate to online counselling

Louise frequently uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in her work. ACT focuses on clarifying personal values and taking meaningful steps, and it can help with depression, anxiety and life changes. CBT helps identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns, which is useful for stress, anger and low self-esteem.

She also draws on Emotionally-Focused and Dialectical Behaviour approaches when strong emotions or relationship patterns are central. Emotionally-Focused work helps people notice and change reactive patterns, while DBT gives concrete skills for managing intense feelings and impulsivity.

Finding the best approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, then try tools that fit the person’s needs. Sessions can include short exercises, practical homework and step-by-step skill practice so people leave with things to try between meetings.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the available session formats before booking. The practical benefit of remote work is that it can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Therapists work with people to adjust pace and structure so therapy fits everyday life rather than the other way round.