About Lisa
Lisa Gore is a licensed clinical social worker who offers a calm, practical approach to common life stresses. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, relationship strain, and changes that feel overwhelming. Lisa uses straightforward conversation to identify what matters most to each person she meets.
With ten years of practice as an LCSW in Virginia, she draws on a range of evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to individual needs.
Background and approach
Sessions center on useful skills and realistic steps people can try between meetings. Lisa pays attention to motivation, self-esteem, and confidence when helping clients navigate career worries and interpersonal problems. Lisa aims to treat everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She works with clients to shape a plan that fits their goals and life circumstances. The tone in sessions is collaborative and practical rather than overly technical. She supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, anger, intimacy-related issues, and depression alongside anxiety and stress.
Her work often involves helping clients develop coping tools, set boundaries, and rebuild confidence after difficult events. Getting started begins with a short matching process and scheduling choices that fit each person. Lisa encourages small, manageable steps toward clearer thinking and steadier emotions.
Her approach is patient and steady, aimed at helping people regain control and move forward.
Approaches that help online and in-session
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One common approach she uses teaches coping skills and behavior change to reduce anxiety and stress. That approach breaks problems into manageable steps and practises new responses to difficult situations.Another approach centers on improving relationships and communication. It helps people notice patterns that cause conflict and then try different ways of speaking and setting boundaries to get better results.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lisa works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts plans as people try strategies and report what works best.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer conversations and interactive work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or support between longer sessions. These formats make therapy flexible for busy schedules and different comfort levels, helping people fit care into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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