About Lisa
Lisa Montgomery is a Kentucky-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) who helps people manage anxiety, stress, and the fallout from trauma and life changes. She focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelm and restore a sense of control. Her manner is warm and affirming, with attention to identity and body-image concerns that often tie into anxiety.
With 16 years of experience, she draws on person-centered care to meet people where they are.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward techniques to ease panic, rebuild confidence, and improve communication in close relationships. Sessions aim to identify small, achievable changes rather than distant ideals. Therapy with Lisa blends cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness skills.
That combination helps people spot unhelpful thoughts, practice different responses, and slowly change patterns that maintain anxiety or low mood. Motivational interviewing is added when someone is working through change or substance concerns. She is also familiar with issues around grief, caregiving stress, and identity-related challenges for LGBT people.
Lisa pays attention to how past abandonment, adoption experiences, or traumatic events shape current reactions. The goal is clearer thinking and steadier emotional responses. People who choose her can expect a collaborative, supportive process.
She explains options, tracks progress, and adjusts the plan as needs shift. Sessions are focused, practical, and paced to each person’s tolerance for change.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Lisa combines client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to create a practical online approach. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, respect, and building a trusting relationship so people feel heard and understood. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches skills to change reactions, which is useful for panic, worry, and low mood.She also uses mindfulness techniques to help manage intense emotions and ground attention in the moment. Mindfulness often pairs well with CBT when someone wants both immediate calming strategies and longer-term thought work. Finding the right mix is collaborative - the therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit their life and comfort level.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues; phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or when being off-camera feels easier. Live chat and text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter format fits a busy day. These options help people access consistent support without rearranging major parts of their routine.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- 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
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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