Liisa Hiltunen, PACFA

Liisa Hiltunen is a PACFA clinical counsellor with more than 20 years of professional experience supporting individuals, families and workplace professionals through personal and career challenges. She holds dual Master’s degrees in Counselling and Business Coaching and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in design, qualifications that enable a holistic practice integrating emotional wellbeing, relationships, work and life direction.

Having lived and worked across Australia, the USA, the UK, Europe and Asia, Liisa has developed specialist experience with expatriate individuals and families, including children navigating relocation, cultural adjustment and shifting identity. She also provides executive-level coaching for c-suite leaders and employee assistance programme support, drawing on evidence-based practice to promote clarity, balance and sustainable performance.

Her clinical work covers a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, low self-esteem, coping with life changes and the cognitive effects sometimes described as brain fog. Liisa brings a trauma-informed, thoughtful and collaborative style, blending evidence-based counselling with practical tools such as SMART goal-setting, creative problem-solving and design-thinking. She supports clients to reconnect with values, meaning and purpose, offering direct guidance alongside a gentle, spiritually informed perspective when that is meaningful to the individual.

As a mother of three adult children, Liisa pairs real-world family experience with professional structure and support. She regards each person as the expert in their own life and aims to offer perspective, clear steps and encouragement as people move forward with renewed confidence.