Elizaveta (Liza) Eldysheva
BA, Psychology
SHE/HER
PRACTICUM STUDENT
Liza practices under the supervision of
a Registered Psychologist,
as described under the
Health Professions Act.
As a Practicum Student
LIZA’S FEES ARE
SLIDING SCALE
QUALITIES
Kids can do many things,
but not all at once, you know why?
Because even in EmPOWERland
kids have only two hands,
not eight, like octopi!
Liza Eldysheva is a Practicum Student
at Kids Reconnect who is awesome
and cool in many respects.
She uses her Superpowers
to help kids explore and grow
their own day-by-day, hour-by-hour.
Liza’s Superhero Story
Attention Parents
Before your first session, you can share this story with your child. Parents can also scroll below to read Liza’s professional bio.
Once upon a time, there was a little kid called Elyzaveta, who wished she had a dog.
Please stay tuned,
(keep you on hold for long we would not)
Liza’s Superhero Story
—featuring Liza and her Superhero dog EARLY—
is coming soon.
Liza’s Professional Bio
Elizaveta (Liza) Eldysheva holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a Minor in Sociology from the University of Calgary, where she was on the Dean’s List in 2022. From September 2024 to April 2025, Liza is fulfilling her practicum hours at Kids Reconnect to complete her studies in the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology program at Yorkville University.
Liza’s professional counselling experience to date has focused on supporting immigrant women and their families with their first steps in Canada at a prominent immigrant-serving organization in Calgary. From December 2022 to the spring of 2023, her support was in the form of non-therapeutic, settlement counselling services. She then grew into a family counselling role, in which she provides individualized and culturally sensitive counselling for immigrant women and their families. Her experience as a family counsellor includes helping families to resolve complex issues such as relationship difficulties, gender-based and intimate partner violence, trauma and abuse, promoting family resilience and healing by fostering understanding, helping clients build supportive relationships within the family unit, and developing tailored treatment plans.
A strong, charismatic community-minded connector, Liza has represented community resource organizations at various events, organized and facilitated support groups and workshops for domestic violence survivors, and offers peer support as a volunteer at Sagesse Domestic Violence Prevention Society. She has completed Gender-Based Analysis (GBA) Plus Training offered by the Government of Canada, Reducing Stigma around Sexuality through Trauma and Violence Informed Care Training by The Centre for Sexuality, Community Helpers Training by Alberta Health Services, and the University of Calgary’s Indigenous Relations Leadership Training Program.
Liza joined the Kids Reconnect team as an Intake Team volunteer in 2023 and progressed into a Practicum Student role in the fall of 2024. In addition to her family counselling professional experience, she brings into her new Practicum Student role the ample experience she garnered by volunteering in our Intake Team, whereby she welcomed and offered administrative support to dozens of parents, kids, families, and couples. In addition to her master’s degree studies, Liza has been working and volunteering in two jobs, impressing and inspiring her clients, colleagues, and managers along the way, and now holds two years of professional and volunteer experience as a family counsellor and intake specialist,
Liza offers affordable child counselling services
Under the supervision of our clinic’s director and co-founder Natalie Bergman, MA, RPsych, Liza is excited to be deepening her therapeutic counselling experience as a Practicum Student at Kids Reconnect,
At Kids Reconnect, Liza offers affordable child, adolescent, family, parenting, and adult counselling and co-facilitates the Feelings and Friends Group. She also offers affordable couples counselling at our Couples Reconnect branch.
