Elizabeth "Lizz" Benton, BACP

Elizabeth "Lizz" Benton is a counsellor with four years of professional experience in the United Kingdom and a BACP registration. She focuses on helping people notice how their thoughts and everyday habits affect mood and relationships. Lizz aims to make the first step to change feel manageable and supportive.

She uses straightforward conversation to help people sort out relationship problems, family tensions and parenting concerns. She also supports clients with stress, anxiety, sleep difficulties, anger and low self-esteem. Work often centres on practical adjustments to daily routines and thinking patterns that get in the way of feeling better.

Lizz draws on several therapeutic approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centred practice. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, doable steps rather than complex theory. She helps people test new ways of handling stressful situations and notice what changes feel helpful.

Her additional interests include attachment-related issues, communication problems, chronic pain and illness, and the emotional effects of divorce or separation. She is also experienced in supporting people facing compassion fatigue and career-related stress. These areas are explored with patience and a practical focus on everyday life.

In sessions she aims to create an open, non-judgemental space where thoughts and feelings can be talked through. The emphasis is on collaboration - working together to find approaches that fit each person’s life and goals.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and decide what matters to them. It uses simple practices to build values-driven action and can help with anxiety, low mood and motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing thought and behaviour patterns that keep problems going. It often involves practical exercises and short experiments to test different ways of coping. Client-Centred Therapy emphasises a supportive, non-judgemental relationship where the person leads the pace and topics of sessions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with clients to identify which methods suit their goals, needs and everyday life. This may mean starting with one approach and adapting over time based on what helps most.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so please confirm the available online options before booking. Online counselling can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also offers flexibility for people in different locations, including international clients, and can accommodate quieter or lower-bandwidth options when that helps someone attend more reliably.