About Liz Sykes
Liz is a proud Tasmanian who brings over 16 years experience as a Counsellor, Clinical Supervisor and Consultant. Prior to commencing Private Practice, she held positions at:
- Education Department – Counsellor & Group Facilitator
- Lifeline Tasmania – Counsellor
- EAP Counsellor, Training Facilitator & Educator – contracted to Government and private organisations
- Relationships Australia Tasmania
- Senior Counsellor
- EAP Counsellor
- Senior Clinical Supervisor
- Education Worker
- Gamblers Help Counsellor
- Consultant to Presbyterian Care Tasmania
Liz Sykes consistently demonstrates strong therapeutic skills, clinical practice, and professionalism as a Counsellor and Clinical Supervisor encompassing a broad range of clinical interventions and frameworks, applying them with discerned therapeutic appropriateness when working with children, adolescents and adults, couples and families.
Professional Membership
- Australian Counselling Association
- Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors
- Australian Clinical Supervision Association Inc.
- National Disability Practitioners
- Mental Health Professionals Network
Therapeutic Frameworks and Training
- Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution Focussed Therapy
- Radical Exposure Therapy for trauma
- ASCA Trauma Informed Practice – Working Therapeutically with Adult Survivors of Child Trauma
- Behavioural Therapy
- Person Centred Therapy
- Developmental Psychopathology & Trauma
- Attachment Theory & Adult Psychodynamic Practices
- Developing Child & Family Sensitive Practice – Australian Centre for Child Protection
- John Gottman’s Couples Therapy
- Collaborative Couple Therapy – Dan Wile
- Couples Therapy – Dr David Schnarch
- Excellence in Professional Practice & Supervision: Amovita Consulting
- 7 Eyed Model of Supervision
- Critical Incident Stress Management and Group Crisis Intervention Facilitator
- Grief and Bereavement
- Positive Psychology
- Mindfulness for Healthy Living & Happiness