About Lisa
Lisa Bradford is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 35 years of experience offering support for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She helps people who are coping with life changes, caregiver strain, addiction concerns, and mood disorders. Her approach is practical and compassionate and focused on small, steady steps toward recovery.
In sessions she keeps the tone warm and nonjudgmental. She partners with clients to set clear goals and makes plans that fit everyday life.
Background and approach
Techniques come from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods. Lisa adapts her approach depending on what each person needs. She has long experience supporting people living with bipolar disorder, PTSD, dissociation, and other mood and trauma-related concerns.
She also brings experience with adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, cancer and hospice matters, and first responder and veteran issues. That background helps when problems touch multiple parts of life. Sessions emphasize practical skills, clearer thinking, and coping tools that people can use between meetings.
She works with parents on parenting stress and with people managing relationship, intimacy, and career pressures. The goal is steady progress and more daily functioning. Lisa practices in Virginia and uses language that is straightforward and direct.
She encourages people to take the first step toward change and offers a collaborative process to help them move forward.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns in a gentle, nonjudgmental way. It helps people who need acceptance and practical support while they sort out feelings and make changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful habits.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adjust methods to fit the client's needs and preferences. That collaborative process helps identify what feels most useful and what can be practiced between sessions.
Online therapy with this therapist is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation for skills practice and deeper discussion. Phone can be easier when video isn't possible or bandwidth is low. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coping tools, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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