About Lisa
Lisa Adler is a licensed professional counselor, LPC-MH, working in South Dakota with 26 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, grief, parenting concerns, and a wide range of life challenges. Lisa speaks plainly and aims to create a calm space where people can talk through what matters most to them.
She sees each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Conversations are practical and goal-oriented. Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and steers conversations toward real steps people can try between sessions. Lisa supports people coping with trauma and abuse, addictions, career changes, compassion fatigue, and chronic health issues.
She also helps with intimacy-related concerns, sleep and eating problems, anger, and self-esteem struggles. Her work includes more specific focuses such as adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, blended family concerns, and adjustment after major loss. Sessions can address both immediate problems and longer-term patterns.
Lisa balances honest feedback with encouragement so people can make steady progress. She checks messages a few times a day and responds as she is able, asking for patience when schedules require it. People who want accessible, straightforward care often find her practical style helpful.
She invites prospective clients to consider what they hope to change and to start with a short matching questionnaire to find the best fit.
Evidence-based approaches and online care that fit your life
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses helps people learn skills to manage anxiety and stress through step-by-step strategies and coping tools. Another approach centers on examining patterns in relationships and behaviors so people can try new responses and improve communication and intimacy.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust methods as progress is made. That collaborative stance helps match techniques to real-life needs rather than applying a single method to every situation.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for more in-depth conversations, while phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, short coaching-style conversations, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep work toward goals between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota
- Languages
- English
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