About Lisa
Lisa Lopez is an Arizona-based licensed clinical social worker with four years as an LCSW and a decade of experience in social work overall. She focuses on practical ways to reduce anxiety and stress and to address addictions and trauma. Her straightforward approach centers on helping people notice strengths and take small, useful steps forward.
She works with people dealing with anxiety, depression, panic attacks, and issues tied to past trauma and sexual assault.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing substance use concerns, low self-esteem, and feelings of isolation. Sessions aim to make difficult problems feel more manageable by breaking them into clearer, concrete goals. Her method combines acceptance and commitment ideas with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices.
That means clients learn to notice unhelpful thoughts, experiment with different actions, and build habits that match their values. Client-centered principles keep the focus on each person's perspective and what matters most to them. Lisa pays attention to attachment and abandonment concerns and helps people improve communication and regain a sense of purpose.
She uses motivational interviewing when encouragement and momentum are needed to change behaviors. Therapy sessions often include simple exercises to practice between meetings. Her style is supportive and direct.
She encourages people to try small changes, notice what works, and adjust as needed. Lisa helps clients set realistic steps toward feeling steadier and more confident.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions in that direction despite anxiety or difficult feelings. It emphasizes values-driven choices and simple exercises to reduce avoidance and increase engagement. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and building new behaviors that reduce anxiety and panic. It often uses short behavioral experiments and skill practice between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention to present-moment experience and teaches brief practices to calm the body and notice thoughts without reacting. This can help with stress, panic symptoms, and intrusive memories.Choosing the best approach is a team effort. Lisa will talk with each person about their goals, try approaches that match those goals, and adjust methods based on what helps. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels workable for the client.
Online sessions offer flexibility for different needs. Video calls are useful for richer interaction and working through exercises together. Phone sessions work well when internet bandwidth is limited or a calmer check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework prompts, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to practice new skills in day-to-day life.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English
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