Elizabeth started her career as a General Paper teacher. She learnt to create safe spaces in and out of class for students to share their struggles and life stories. Classrooms became little havens, where students could be authentic and not feel judged. Out of class, she journeyed individually with students and helped them believe in themselves again.

In 2013, she became the school's Character and Citizenship Education (CCE) Mentor, and started writing a curriculum based on personal narratives and trained other teachers to create safe spaces in their own classroom.

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Increasingly, she realised that everyone had a story, but there were so few spaces that they felt safe enough to share them. So most end up bottling up their pain and struggle through it alone. So, in 2014, she left the teaching service and started working as a freelance facilitator. 

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Elizabeth trained as an interfaith and inter-ethnic facilitator, creating safe spaces to enable the dialogue about sensitive issues through the use of personal narratives. Elizabeth also became an advanced Emotional Intelligence (EQ) Trainer and Assessor with ©6Seconds (USA). In addition, she obtained a Diploma in Adult Faith Formation from the Singapore Pastoral Institute.

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With these tools, she started going to different schools, community organisations and even churches to run workshops and create safe spaces for authentic dialogue and community building. She focused on helping people be emotionally intelligent, develop life skills, personal mastery, self-esteem and personal growth.

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With these skills, she also worked with families to help them communicate and listen better. She mediated conflicts. She journeyed with patients and their families through end-of-life issues. She taught people how to use their emotions to make better decisions. She was also invited to run church camps and retreats for teens and young adults to help them discover God in their own story. She was also the chief facilitator and panel speaker of Singapore's first sexual abuse campaign- A Holding Space.

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In her journey of creating safe spaces, she has heard stories of domestic violence, sexual abuse, dysfunctional families, clinical depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, dissociation, anorexia, self-harm, suicide ideation and even multiple suicide attempts. When these stories surfaced, she would work with parents, teachers, church leaders, therapists, psychiatrists and even benefactors to get them the support they needed.

Elizabeth is no stranger to life's challenges. She is a survivor of complex trauma (post-traumatic stress disorder), and battled with depressive symptoms for years to rebuild her life. The authenticity of Elizabeth's story often helps create the safe environment for people to share their struggles because they are able to relate to her. 

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Over time, she heard many stories and felt strongly that she wanted to do something to help them herself. Thus, Elizabeth trained to become a Clinical Hypnotherapist (certification number: 119-040) with the Hypnotherapy Training Institute, certified by the American Council of Hypnotist Examiners.

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Elizabeth also has a Masters of Arts (Counselling and Guidance) from the National Institute of Education.

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She has also completed Beginning I/II/III, Intermediate I/II/III and Advanced I Somatic Experiencing training. She is expected to complete her Somatic Experiencing training by October 2022.