About Lisa
Lisa Hilton is a licensed social worker with 20 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, and relationship struggles in a direct, practical way. Lisa draws on approaches that focus on how people connect and how thoughts affect feelings.
She begins by listening to what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on real problems at home, work, or in relationships. Lisa uses simple exercises you can try between meetings to build new habits and calm daily worry.
Background and approach
Her work often addresses trauma, grief, depression, and sleep or parenting concerns. She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiving strain, career shifts, and identity concerns like attachment and body image. Her practice pays attention to both emotions and concrete behaviors.
Lisa combines talk therapy with skills training when useful. That can include strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to notice and change unhelpful thoughts, and techniques from attachment-based and emotionally-focused methods to repair close relationships. She also uses dialectical behavior ideas for managing strong emotions.
Based in Michigan, Lisa offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She aims to make therapy approachable and goal-focused while honoring each person’s pace of change. People who want clear steps and steady support often find her style helpful.
How attachment and CBT translate to online care
Lisa uses attachment-based and cognitive behavioral approaches in ways that work well over video or messaging. Attachment-based therapy looks at how relationships shape feelings and behaviors, and helps people change patterns that create distance or anxiety in close connections. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying thoughts that fuel worry and testing new ways of thinking and acting to reduce symptoms. Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, needs, and any past therapy experiences, then suggest techniques to try. Clients and the therapist adjust the plan together as progress unfolds. Online sessions offer flexibility and several ways to stay connected. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues for relational work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer writing between sessions, want brief skills coaching, or need a lower-intensity option. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep practicing skills between meetings.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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