About Lisa
Lisa Draper is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and life transitions. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters to each person. Her background includes military service and emergency response, and that practical experience shapes how she works.
She draws on a mix of approaches to meet people where they are. Cognitive behavioral techniques help identify unhelpful thoughts and build new coping habits.
Background and approach
Mindfulness strategies teach grounding and calm in moments of overwhelm. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy supports values-based choices when life feels uncertain. Lisa spent years in the U.S.
Army and has frontline experience as a paramedic, firefighter, and corrections deputy. Those roles taught her to stay focused under pressure and to notice how stress accumulates over time. She also has direct experience helping people with substance use concerns alongside co-occurring depression, anxiety, and trauma-related symptoms.
In sessions she treats therapy as a joint process. She prefers to walk beside people as they sort through challenges rather than push or direct them. Her style is straightforward and practical, with attention to real-life demands like sleep problems, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and workplace stress.
Many people seek her help for grief, anger, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and trauma recovery. She also addresses relationship communication, blended family dynamics, and issues common to first responders and veterans. Sessions focus on small, doable steps that fit each person's day-to-day life.
Practical approaches for online care
Lisa often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values. ACT can be useful when anxiety or life transitions make choices feel overwhelming.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thought and behavior patterns that keep problems stuck. CBT focuses on concrete skill-building for sleep, worry, anger, and mood shifts, which many people find helpful between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She treats the choice of method as a conversation and will help you decide what fits your goals and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.
Online therapy with her is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different rhythms of life. Video calls let you work face to face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat makes for a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit appointments around work, caregiving, or unpredictable schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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