Lisa Mackinnon, AASW

Lisa Mackinnon is an Accredited Social Worker (AASW) based in Melbourne, Australia, with 17 years of clinical experience supporting people through a wide range of challenges. She specialises in stress and anxiety, depression, anger, grief and loss, and trauma, and brings additional focus to issues such as dissociation, guilt and shame, isolation and loneliness, panic disorder and panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, self-harm, self-love, and social anxiety and phobia.

Her training includes work in family therapy to support people facing stresses in significant relationships, parenting challenges, separations, and caregiving roles. Lisa draws on a mix of client-centered therapy, solution-focused therapy, somatic approaches, and trauma-focused techniques to tailor care to each person’s needs. Her style is supportive and validating, emphasising collaboration to identify strengths, practical tools, and pathways that reduce distress and open up new possibilities.

Lisa has extensive experience working with the effects of trauma and approaches that work with both the body and the mind. She is also trained in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as tapping, a mind-body method used alongside counselling to help address emotional distress and trauma responses. Lisa’s work centres on listening without judgment and helping people make sense of their struggles, clarify options, and move toward greater connection with themselves and what they want in life.