About Lisa
Lisa Gallagher is an ACA counsellor with 16 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem and depression. Lisa aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive.
She values each person’s strengths and life story. Clients can expect straightforward support that centres their experience. Lisa listens first, and then helps people set small, practical goals.
Sessions are conversational and often track progress week to week.
Background and approach
She encourages simple strategies people can use between appointments. Her background includes long-term practice working with life changes and the emotional fallout that follows. That experience informs how she responds to issues such as abandonment, attachment concerns and caregiver stress.
She also works with people facing chronic pain, illness or disability and the emotional toll those bring. Communication difficulties, control issues and problems around trust and forgiveness are other areas she addresses. Lisa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people build coping skills and improve day-to-day functioning.
The approach is paced to the person’s comfort. Lisa works with people who feel stuck by isolation, guilt or shame, or who are wrestling with purpose, finances or relationship endings. She meets each person where they are and supports practical steps toward a more manageable life.
Taking that first step is acknowledged and supported throughout therapy.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address common problems such as anxiety and depression. One approach focuses on building practical coping skills to change unhelpful patterns of thinking and behaviour; it helps with worry, low mood and day-to-day stress. Another approach attends to past hurt and trauma by helping people make sense of difficult memories and reduce their ongoing impact on mood and relationships.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, history and what feels helpful, then tailor methods to suit those needs. That collaboration continues as progress is reviewed and techniques are adjusted over time.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video lets people have a full conversation face to face, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, written reflections and ongoing support between longer sessions. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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