About Lisa
Lisa Dorfman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor with 38 years of experience based in Florida. She combines talk therapy with practical strategies to help people manage stress, anxiety, eating concerns, and low self-esteem. Her work often focuses on restoring energy, motivation, and confidence so people can move forward in work and life.
She practices in a whole-person way that blends conversation, skill-building, and body-aware methods. Lisa uses client-centered principles to meet people where they are and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills, EMDR techniques, and mindfulness practices when those tools fit the situation. Sessions typically focus on clear goals like reducing panic, improving body image, coping with grief, or managing caregiving stress. Lisa emphasizes small, concrete steps - breathing and grounding tools, thought-challenging exercises, and behavioral plans that can be tried between sessions.
She also brings experience addressing first responder issues, veteran concerns, postpartum depression, and end-of-life caregiving stress. Her style is steady and practical. She encourages people to use their own strengths and values as a guide.
Work in therapy is collaborative, with measurable steps and progress checks along the way. Lisa works with people who want coaching and clinical support for life changes, career strain, relationship trouble, trauma recovery, or ongoing anxiety. Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients for online formats.
Therapeutic approaches online and how they help
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation. The therapist follows the person's lead, listens closely, and helps clarify values and goals so change comes from the client’s own strengths.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises like thought records and behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety, shift unhelpful patterns, and build coping skills.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches concrete skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships. These tools are useful for managing intense emotions, anger, and repeated stress responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss client goals, preferences, and life demands and then recommend which methods to try first. This is a collaborative process and methods can be adjusted over time as progress is tracked.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and guided exercises. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, homework guidance, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what feels most helpful.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Utah
- Languages
- English
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