Dr Elise Landau

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PhD, MCouns

Elise is originally from Southern California, where she began her training as a Marriage and Family Therapist in 2011.  Across the greater Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas, Elise gained extensive experience in community and hospital clinics treating individuals and couples impacted by a broad range of psychological difficulties.  

Since moving to Australia in 2015, Elise has continued to support the mental wellbeing of folks in the Melbourne community through her PhD and continued academic research on sleep, and clinical work in private practice. 

Elise has three main areas of practice, focused on supporting clients with:

• Couples therapy for relationship stressors (including communication-style mismatches, infidelity and mistrust, emotional disconnection, separation and divorce, open and poly couple issues, and child rearing conflicts)  
• Disturbed sleep (including insomnia and hypersomnia disorders, difficulty falling or      staying asleep, unrefreshing sleep, or problems waking too early)
• Mood  symptoms (including anxiety and depression, constant worrying and anxious thoughts, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and feeling down, fatigued, or hopeless)

Elise regularly provides therapy for members of the LGBTQIA+ community for issues such as identity discovery, gender dysphoria, pre- and post-op gender confirmation issues, stigma, and bullying and discrimination. Elise welcomes clients of all sexual orientations, genders, cultures, backgrounds, and faiths, and all relationship styles (including monogamous and poly relationships).

Elise is also an active Research Fellow involved in studies designed to improve people’s sleep. Click to learn more about Elise’s research at Monash University and recent academic publications. 

Using a holistic, strength-based approach to therapy, Elise draws from evidence-based techniques including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and CBT-I (for insomnia), and is listed on the International Directory for CBT-I providers. Elise also regularly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and attachment-based therapies such as Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) to support her clients’ mental health.