About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Cooney is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, worry, addiction, or relationship strain.
She offers a calm, accepting presence and practical steps to help people feel steadier day to day. Her work often focuses on anxiety and related concerns such as depression, trauma, grief, and issues around identity and sexuality. She also supports people dealing with eating concerns, anger, bipolar mood patterns, and substance use.
Background and approach
Clients come for help with communication problems, attachment questions, and rebuilding after separation or loss. Lisa blends several approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses client-centered conversation to build trust and psychodynamic ideas to look at long-standing patterns.
For traumatic memories she uses eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and she may draw on existential questions about meaning and purpose. Sessions are practical and collaborative. She helps people set small, doable goals and tries different tools until something fits.
Expect clear talk about next steps and homework you can try between sessions. Practicing in Texas as an LMFT, she has worked with a wide range of life challenges across many settings over the past two decades. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients, using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person as they are. It helps people who feel stuck or judged by offering a respectful space to talk and try small changes. Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat across relationships and time; it can help when old habits shape current anxiety and relationship behavior. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, is used to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories by combining focused recall with guided bilateral stimulation; it is often chosen by people coping with trauma reactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels comfortable, then suggest which methods to try first. Sessions may combine different approaches as needed, and adjustments can be made over time based on how things are progressing.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let you read facial cues and body language, while phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and maintain momentum while working on anxiety, trauma, or relationship issues.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas, Arizona, District of Columbia, Oregon, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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