Eliza is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker and the Founder of Blackbird Counselling, a practice managing a group of mental health professionals who provide counselling and support to women and families across the lifespan. She has worked in mental health for the past 24 years and has been in private practice specializing in perinatal and infant mental health for the past 8 years.

In 2020, Eliza created Blackbird House, a Perinatal Health and Wellness Centre on the Sunshine Coast. This center implements programs supporting women and families, including The Mother Mentor Program, Blackbird Playgroups, and Mother’s Groups. The Wellness Centre aims to reduce barriers by providing access to multiple services in one location, including pregnancy massage, baby massage, a paediatrician, Circle of Security groups, midwifery & lactation consultants, paediatric physiotherapy, and access to community clubs/groups.

Eliza has completed Circle of Security Facilitator Training and Newborn Behavioural Observation training through the Royal Women’s Hospital in Victoria. She has worked with the Queensland Ballet's Bumps to Babies Program through Mindstar and is a Registered Supervisor with the Australian Association of Social Workers, having completed the Excellence in Supervisory Practice Certificate (PASE model) through Amovita International. She has also completed Perinatal Non-Directive Pregnancy Counselling Certification through the Australian Psychological Society.

Eliza has diverse experience working in multi-disciplinary teams for the Department of Human Services within the Job Capacity Assessment Units, Commonwealth Rehabilitation Services Australia, Community Health Centres, hospitals, and the University of the Sunshine Coast. She has worked as an External Supervisor with the University of the Sunshine Coast, supervising Bachelor of Social Work students, and regularly supervises students in her practice from psychology, social work, and peer support programs.

Eliza has previously held positions with the Australasian Birth Trauma Clinical Advisory Committee and the Sunshine Coast Women’s Mental Health Professionals Network in 2021/22. She is currently the Chair for the Gidget Foundation Australia’s LGBTQIA+ Working Party Group.

In 2018, Eliza worked with Gidget Foundation Australia as one of the first Accredited Mental Health Social Workers in the Start Talking Program and joined as the Clinical Training Leader for Gidget Foundation Australia’s Workforce Development Program in 2022. She became the Workforce Development Program Manager in October 2022.