Dr Elizabeth Landau

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Elizabeth 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, Elizabeth gained extensive experience in community and hospital clinics treating adolescents and adults, couples, and families impacted by a broad range of psychological difficulties.  

Since moving to Australia in 2015, Elizabeth has continued to support the mental wellbeing of folks in the Melbourne community through her PhD research on mindfulness-based therapies and clinical work in private practice.    Elizabeth is skilled in supporting clients develop long-term, sustainable strategies to better cope with and recover from:  

• Relationship stressors (including communication-style mismatches, infidelity and mistrust, emotional disconnection, separation and divorce, stepfamily issues, and child rearing conflicts)  
• Constant worrying and anxious thoughts (including generalized anxiety, social anxiety, specific phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder)  
• Feeling down, fatigued, and hopeless (including major depression and persistent depressive disorder)  
• Disturbed sleep (including insomnia and hypersomnia disorders, generalized anxiety disorder, and depressive disorders)  
• Traumatic experiences (including posttraumatic stress disorder and bereavement, grief, and loss)  
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Elizabeth has extensive experience providing therapy to members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and welcomes clients from all sexual orientations, genders, cultures, backgrounds, and faiths.    

Elizabeth also offers therapy in Spanish (ofrece terapia en español).   

Using a holistic, strength-based approach to therapy, Elizabeth draws from evidence-based techniques, such as mindfulness-based therapies, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), attachment-based therapies such as Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), and Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) strategies. 
 

Publications:

Landau, E. R., Raniti, M. B., Blake, M., Waloszek, J. M., Blake, L., Simmons, J. G., Schwartz, O., Murray, G., Trinder, J., Allen, N.B., & Byrne, M. L. (2021). The ratio of morning cortisol to CRP prospectively predicts first-onset depression in at-risk adolescents. Social Science & Medicine, 114098.

Simpson, C., Adler, C., du Plessis, M., Landau, E., Dashper, S., Reynolds, E., Schwartz, O., & Simmons, J. (2020). Oral microbiome composition, but not diversity, is associated with adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms. Physiology & Behavior, 226, 113126.

Landau, E. R., Trinder, J., Simmons, J. G., Raniti, M., Blake, M., Waloszek, J. M., ... & Byrne, M. L. (2019). Salivary C-reactive protein among at-risk adolescents: A methods investigation of out of range immunoassay data. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 99, 104-111.

Blake, M.J., Blake, L.J., Schwartz, O., Raniti, M., Waloszek, J.M., Murray, G., Simmons, J., Landau, E., Dahl, R.E., McMakin, D.L., Dudgeon, P., Trinder, J.A., & Allen, N.A. (2018). Who benefits from adolescent sleep interventions? Moderators of treatment efficacy in a randomized controlled trial of a cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based group sleep intervention for at-risk adolescents. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59(6), 637-649.

Blake, M.J., Snoep, L., Raniti, M., Schwartz, O., Waloszek, J., Simmons, J.G., Murray, G.W., Blake, L., Landau, E., Dahl, R., Bootzin., R., McMakin, D., Dudgeon, P., Trinder, J., & Allen, N.B. (2017). A cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based group sleep intervention improves behavior problems in at-risk adolescents by improving perceived sleep quality. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 99, 147-156.