PRACTICUM STUDENT

Elizaveta (Liza) Eldysheva practices at Couples Reconnect as a Practicum Student under the supervision of a Registered Psychologist, as described under the Health Professions Act.

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 Calgary Reconnect Counselling Group (Kids Reconnect and Couples Reconnect) to complete her studies in the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology program at Yorkville University.

Prior to becoming a Practicum Student, Liza’s professional counselling experience 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 couples 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 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 Calgary Reconnect Counselling Group 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 is excited to deepen her therapeutic counselling experience as a Practicum Student at Couples Reconnect, under the supervision of our clinic’s director and co-founder Natalie Bergman. As a Practicum Student, Liza’s fees are sliding scale.

Liza is excited to deepen her therapeutic counselling experience as a Practicum Student at Couples Reconnect, under the supervision of our clinic’s director and co-founder Natalie Bergman, MA, RPsych. Besides affordable couples counselling, Liza also offers affordable child, adolescent, parenting, and adult counselling at our Kids Reconnect branch.

As a Practicum Student, Liza’s fees are sliding scale. Call our friendly Intake Team today to book an affordable couples counselling appointment with Liza.

Couples Reconnect, a branch of Calgary Reconnect Counselling Group, acknowledges that we are gathered on Treaty 7 territory, the original home of the Blackfoot Confederacy, comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, and Kanai First Nations; the Stoney Nakoda, comprised of the Chiniki, Wesley, and Bearspaw First Nations; and the Tsuut’ina First Nation.  This territory is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3 within the historical Northwest Métis homeland. Located on this traditional territory, our mission is to spark reconnection and healing within couples, kids, parents, and families. We do this work with respect for these First Nations and in a spirit of humility, kindness, inclusion, and diversity.