Elizabeth Ayers

I am currently accepting new clients. 

My standard session price is £90, but I operate a sliding scale depending on your circumstances which can bring this down to £70. 

Please contact me for specific availability.

Whether it’s your first time in therapy or you’re returning to it, together we will gently navigate our way to what matters most to you now and what serves your best interests in this next step of your healing and recovery journey.

I aim to offer a warm and authentic space for clients to feel safe within. I believe in working collaboratively with clients to explore what combination of therapy most effectively supports them through their therapeutic goals, learning, tweaking and evolving every session.

Over time, the compassion, fresh perspectives, and deep attentiveness you experience in therapy can become qualities you internalise and more readily extend to yourself, helping you build a life that feels authentic and meaningful.

My educational and professional background combines over a decade of experience in mental health settings, spanning public, private, and nonprofit roles. I hold a BSc(Hons) in Counselling and Therapeutic Studies, an MSc in Gerontology (the science of ageing and lifespan development), and a PGDip (distinction) in Counselling and Psychotherapy from UEL, and I am a registered member of the BACP. 

Being an integrative therapist means I adapt and blend therapeutic modalities to your specific and intersecting needs rather than expecting you to fit into a singular form of therapy. With you at the centre, we co-create a space where you can feel safe enough to explore your therapeutic goal(s) and whatever is on your mind. Throughout the process, and as our work together unfolds, we will check in with how you’re experiencing therapy and focus on building a trusting, collaborative relationship where you feel supported and seen.

In a typical session, we could look at your past through a psychodynamic lens and gently explore if early experiences are impacting your present. It could mean using Internal Family Systems and creativity to connect with the different parts of the self and give a voice to the emotions you can't put into words. Moments of loss or existential questioning may lead us to explore your meaning-making processes within the broader systems we are all a part of. At times, our work may involve practical skills from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT), offering tools that can help you navigate daily challenges with greater ease and resilience. When it feels supportive, we can bring in somatic approaches and polyvagal-informed techniques, tuning into the body’s wisdom and fostering a greater sense of presence and balance.  

Regardless of the approach we take, my goal is to offer you a therapeutic space where self-discovery, healing, and growth can unfold in ways that are meaningful and lasting to you. 

If you’re interested in exploring therapy with me, I offer a free 15-minute consultation via Zoom.

This informal meeting allows us to get a sense of each other and explore whether we might be a good fit.

If we decide to continue, we will book an initial session to assess what your goal(s) are and what therapeutic process might work best for you.

My standard session price is £90, but I operate a sliding scale depending on your circumstances, which can bring this down to £70.