Anna Elisara

Anna is a warm and empathic psychologist who completed her Master of Clinical Psychology at the Australian National University. Anna places great importance on the client-therapist relationship and strives to create a space for her clients that is safe, validating, and non-judgemental.Anna is particularly interested in working with adults whose distress is traceable in some way to difficult childhood experiences (e.g., neglect, invalidation, abandonment). Anna has experience working with adults experiencing a range of difficulties including anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, and addiction. Anna primarily works within an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy, or cognitive behaviour therapy framework, depending on the client's needs.Anna also thoroughly enjoys working with children of all ages and their parents, drawing from attachment research, Circle of Security parenting, and the Unified Protocol for Children (UP-C). In her work with children, Anna aims to help them increase their confidence and their ability to self-regulate, and to help parents to identify and meet their children's emotional needs and scaffold their emotional development.Anna is available to see clients on Wednesdays and Thursdays.