About Lisa
Lisa Fargnoli is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) with 22 years of experience. She practices in Massachusetts and focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression, and relationship and family concerns. She brings a warm, honest style and uses humor when appropriate to make conversations easier.
Her approach blends practical techniques and mindfulness. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice and shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Background and approach
Mindfulness is part of her practice to calm the body and mind. Motivational Interviewing helps when people feel stuck and want to make changes. Sessions are interactive and geared toward real-life changes.
Lisa talks through goals with each person and adapts strategies to what fits their day-to-day life. She supports work on self-esteem, coping with life changes, and managing symptoms related to addiction, bipolar disorder, eating concerns, and obsessive-compulsive behaviors. She also works with issues tied to adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric questions, chronic pain and illness, dissociation, and end-of-life concerns.
Lisa aims to help people reduce distress and build clearer ways to manage emotions and relationships. People who choose her therapy can expect straightforward talk, practical tools, and mindfulness exercises. She offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How Lisa’s Approaches Work Online
Lisa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot patterns in their thoughts and behaviors and try small, practical changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, and many everyday stressors. Mindfulness Therapy is another key part of her work and focuses on gentle attention to breathing, sensations, and the present moment to reduce reactivity and physical tension.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. Lisa talks with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide whether CBT techniques, mindfulness exercises, or motivational interviewing will best fit the situation and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be a good fit when video bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit short exchanges into busy days and to keep momentum between sessions. These formats can help people maintain consistency while balancing work, caregiving, or mobility limits.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts
- Languages
- English
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