About Lisa
Lisa Hutchinson is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress and anxiety, cope with grief, and navigate relationship or parenting challenges. She offers straightforward support for depression, addictions, career concerns, and life changes. Lisa speaks English and Spanish and practices in Utah as an LCSW and CSW.
Her style is warm and interactive. She listens without judgment and works with each person to set clear, practical goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on problem solving and skill building rather than labels. Lisa uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy to identify thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. She pairs that with solution-focused techniques to find small, achievable steps that fit daily life.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone is weighing change or struggling with substance use. She has six years of clinical experience, including work with people facing chronic health issues, substance concerns, and family stress. Lisa has also supported people through fertility and pregnancy-related worries and the emotional work that follows loss.
In sessions she helps clients build coping skills, manage mood changes like seasonal affective disorder, reduce compassion fatigue, and clarify life purpose. The work often includes short-term practical strategies, from thought tracking to creating doable routines. People who choose Lisa typically want a respectful, collaborative approach that focuses on real-life solutions.
She frames therapy as a team effort and tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation and goals.
Approaches and what online therapy makes possible
Lisa blends cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused methods to help people make practical changes. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood and teaches tools like thought tracking and behavioral experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress.Solution-focused therapy centers on finding small, doable steps toward a preferred life. Sessions focus on strengths, clear goals, and simple actions you can try between meetings. Motivational interviewing can be brought in when someone is unsure about change; it helps clarify personal reasons for taking the next step.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That process may include trying one approach for a few sessions and adjusting based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text are helpful for people who prefer writing or need flexible, ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Oregon
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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