About Lisa
Lisa Gray is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 18 years of experience. She brings a direct, compassionate approach to helping people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and life changes. Lisa aims to help individuals regain a sense of meaning and move toward clearer goals.
Her background spans many complex concerns, including depression, addiction-related issues, sleep disturbances, and struggles with intimacy and relationships. She also addresses caregiver strain, chronic illness challenges, and difficulties tied to adoption or attachment.
Background and approach
Lisa draws on several therapy styles to match each person's needs. In sessions she uses practical techniques from cognitive behavioral work to identify unhelpful patterns and test new behaviors. She blends mindfulness practices to calm the body and mind.
Narrative and Jungian ideas can help people reframe personal stories and find deeper personal themes. Her style is straightforward and hopeful. Conversations focus on clear steps, short-term goals, and tools people can use between sessions.
Lisa emphasizes restoring value, choice, and purpose after painful experiences. Lisa provides care across Michigan and works with people of many ages. She communicates in English and is open to working with clients internationally.
Her practice includes video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Approaches that guide online sessions and practical tools
Lisa often uses cognitive behavioral work to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and many everyday worries because it focuses on clear steps and experiments to change behavior.She also draws on mindfulness approaches to teach simple breathing and attention skills that reduce reactivity and strengthen concentration. Mindfulness techniques can be used during moments of stress, to improve sleep routines, or to manage cravings and agitation.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, comfort level, and life demands. This means testing tools, reviewing what helps, and shifting tactics together when needed.
Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people see nonverbal cues and work through exercises together. Phone sessions can be a quicker check-in and work well when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for short updates, coping check-ins, or maintaining momentum between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can keep progress moving despite travel, work, or scheduling challenges.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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