Liisa Hiltunen

Liisa Hiltunen is a PACFA counsellor with 20 years of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem and major life changes. She combines counselling with coaching to help clients find clearer direction and realistic steps forward.

Liisa trained at postgrad level and also brings a background in business coaching and design. That mix means sessions can include practical goal-setting, creative problem solving and conversations about work and leadership as well as personal life. She aims for straightforward, useful strategies that fit day-to-day life.

Her approach is trauma-informed and collaborative. Liisa uses evidence-based methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy alongside attachment-informed work and mindfulness. Sessions often focus on values, meaning and steps you can try between meetings.

Liisa has worked across many countries and has extensive experience with relocation, cultural adjustment and identity changes that come with living abroad. She also supports people facing caregiving stress, blended family challenges, adoption and foster care issues, and ageing concerns.

People who come to Liisa often want practical tools plus space to reflect. She offers a direct but gentle style and helps clients set SMART goals, test ideas and build sustainable routines. If you need help finding clearer priorities or coping with big transitions, she can help map a way forward.

How Liisa’s approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, practical steps toward those values. It is often used for anxiety, low motivation and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing unhelpful thinking and trying different behaviours to change how someone feels and functions; it is commonly used for stress and anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at relationship patterns and how early connections shape current reactions, which can be useful when relationship problems or attachment concerns are present.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Liisa will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals and style. That can mean trying one approach for a while, mixing techniques, or adjusting as new issues come up during therapy.

Session formats are not specified in the supplied biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people continue therapy while relocating or dealing with work commitments. Appropriately qualified therapists can adapt exercises, goal-setting and mindfulness practices for remote sessions so the work remains practical and actionable.