About Lisa
Lisa Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Virginia with two decades of clinical experience. She offers direct, practical help for people facing anxiety, mood concerns, trauma, and related stresses. Her style is straightforward and focused on what helps in day-to-day life.
She has provided therapy across outpatient clinics, residential treatment settings, hospitals, and schools. That variety means she has worked with many kinds of problems and different stages of recovery.
Background and approach
Teaching graduate social work courses is also part of her background, and she often draws on classroom material about how childhood trauma affects adults. Her practice includes treatment for trauma, mood disorders, depression, and bipolar disorder. She also supports people dealing with grief, parenting strain, relationship issues, career stress, anger, ADHD, and compassion fatigue.
These areas are common topics she addresses in sessions. Sessions are scheduled mainly on weekday daytime hours. She offers several online formats to make care fit into busy lives, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
The therapist uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time. Clients can expect a collaborative approach that looks at symptoms and daily routines. She focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
Her teaching and clinical experience inform a straightforward, skill-oriented way of working that aims to reduce anxiety and improve coping over time.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Many evidence-based therapeutic techniques focus on changing thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms. Cognitive approaches help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new ways of thinking and acting to lower anxiety and improve mood. Exposure-based strategies involve gradual, supported steps to face fears and reduce avoidance over time, which can help with anxiety and post-traumatic stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they review what is working and adjust methods so the plan fits the person’s life and symptoms.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people juggling work, family, and other demands. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth and time permit. Phone sessions can be shorter and easier when video is not practical. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins and ongoing support possible between sessions. These options help people access care from different locations and at different times while keeping therapy practical and manageable.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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