Safe Space
Psychotherapy Practice
Warrnambool
About Liz
Liz is a neuroscience-trained psychotherapist whose work goes beyond traditional talk-based approaches. She works with the emotional and nervous system patterns that shape how people respond to stress, relationships, and life experiences — patterns that often remain unchanged even when they’re well understood intellectually.
With an academic background in political psychology and psychoanalysis and training in neuroplasticity, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and hypnotherapy, Liz is deeply interested in how beliefs, stories, and adaptations form, and how they can shift over time. Her work supports people to reconnect with parts of themselves that may have been set aside, and to relate to themselves and the world differently.
Read more about her story below.
My Story
I’m Liz, and I’d love to introduce you to how I work and what I can offer.
I am a neuroscience-trained psychotherapist, and my work goes deeper than traditional talk-based
therapy.
While talk therapy often focuses on thoughts and behaviours, psychotherapy works with
the emotional and nervous system patterns underneath them. This matters because many of our reactions aren’t conscious choices. They’re shaped by how our brain and nervous system learned to respond to stress, relationships, and past experiences. Even when we understand why we react the way we do, those deeper patterns can remain unchanged. This work supports those patterns to shift, not just be understood.
My academic background includes an Honours degree in Political Psychology and psychoanalysis from the University of Melbourne. My studies explored how beliefs, meaning-making, and social systems shape our sense of self, belonging, authority, and worth, both individually and collectively. I am also a Master
Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, hold coaching qualifications through an ICF-accredited program and am a hypnotherapy practitioner.
Throughout my life, I’ve been deeply curious about why we are the way we are and how our
thoughts, beliefs, and values are formed; the stories we tell about ourselves and the world; and how
these stories shape our lived experience.
More recently, my work has been strongly informed by an understanding of neuroplasticity and our
capacity to change over time. Together, we explore not only how your nervous system, inner world,
and life experiences have shaped you, but also how you can begin to relate to yourself and the world
differently moving forward.
At different points in life, we are asked to choose between safety and growth, belonging and
authenticity, adaptation and self-expression. When these choices are made under pressure, they can
become patterns that persist long after they’re needed. In our work, we gently bring these patterns
into awareness so their original purpose can be understood, and so you can decide whether they still
serve you now.
Many people I work with are reconnecting with parts of themselves that have been set aside, such
as intuition, creativity, emotional truth, or a deeper sense of meaning. Others come because they
feel anxious, burnt out, at a crossroads, or quietly aware that something needs to change, even if
they can’t yet name what that is. Whatever brings you, the work is collaborative, respectful, and
paced to honour you.