Lisa Mackinnon

Lisa Mackinnon is an Accredited Social Worker based in Melbourne, Australia, with 17 years of counselling experience. She works with people facing a wide range of difficulties and brings particular expertise in stress and anxiety, depression, anger, grief and loss, and trauma and abuse.

In addition to her social work accreditation, Lisa holds further qualifications in Family Therapy that inform her work around stresses in significant relationships, including parenting, individual relationship issues, separations and caregiving. Her style is supportive and validating, shaped around each person’s unique circumstances and what feels most helpful to them.

Lisa collaborates with clients to identify strengths, clarify options and develop practical ways forward that reduce distress and open up new pathways. She draws on contemporary understanding of how the brain and body respond to stress and offers tools and techniques that support change.

She has extensive experience addressing the effects of trauma and works with these issues in a careful, supported manner. Lisa is also trained in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as Tapping, a mind-body approach used alongside counselling to help manage emotional distress and trauma responses.

Lisa listens without judgement and supports people to move through depression, anxiety, trauma reactions, grief and anger, helping them make sense of their situation and reconnect with what they want from life.