About Us
Lizz's
Story
Sometimes the world can feel like a really big place. Lizz Hills knows this better than most.
She's walked 6,371 kilometres across Australia, from Rathdowney on the East Coast, Queensland to Kalbarri on the West Coast, Western Australia, not as a feat of endurance, but as an act of listening.
Listening to communities navigating environmental grief, to people carrying things they hadn't yet put into words, and to the land itself.
What she found, over and over, is that we don't have to work things out alone. And that one of the best places to start is simply by taking a walk together.
Lizz is a nature-based counselling practitioner, environmental educator, author, and community advocate based in Running Creek, Queensland. She holds a Bachelor of Sociology and is completing a Masters degree, with a focus on green social work and ecological wellbeing. She is the 2024 Scenic Rim Citizen of the Year and a 2023 CSIRO Future Shapers Award recipient, and serves as a national ambassador for the National Assistance Card.
Her counselling practice, Trek2Reconnect, offers individual sessions and group walks for people at any stage of their journey, whether you're just starting out or ready to go deep. New clients are welcome to begin with a 12-session pathway, or to bring a specific focus for a shorter piece of work.
Lizz is also available for community projects, creative collaborations, and media enquiries. If something here speaks to you, reach out.
Qualifications and memberships:
Master of Social Work — Griffith University
Graduate Diploma in Psychology — James Cook University
Bachelor of Arts (Sociology) — Griffith University
Registered member, Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW)
Professional indemnity insured through Upcover via AASW
Private health fund rebates available — Bupa
Member, Australian Nature Journalling Australia
Former crisis counsellor, Lifeline Australia
Former Director, Wild Mountains Environmental Education Centre
Lived experience:
Acquired brain injury survivor (Thailand train accident, 2004)
Asian Tsunami survior (2004) — informing trauma-sensitive, embodied practice
Walked 6,371km across Australia in 153 days (2023) — delivering nature-based environmental education across Australian Schools and communities. Not just theory. This is practice lived in the body and on Country.