About Lisa
Lisa Papas is an ACA counsellor with 30 years of experience who focuses on helping people manage anxiety and stress. She aims to give each person time to tell their story and feel heard. Her manner is respectful, compassionate and straightforward, so people can start making small changes that matter.
She supports people facing trauma, chronic health problems and addiction. She also helps with grief, life-stage changes, relationship struggles and parenting or pregnancy concerns.
Background and approach
Lisa works with issues like sleep problems, low self-esteem, anger and career worries as well. Sessions tend to be practical and conversational. Lisa uses techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help with unhelpful thoughts and avoidance.
She also draws on attachment-based and client-centred approaches to strengthen relationships and build emotional safety. Over three decades she has worked with a wide range of challenges including caregiver stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, and the effects of disaster. This breadth means she can offer down-to-earth strategies as well as space to process difficult feelings.
People who choose Lisa can expect a collaborative process. She will listen, clarify what matters to the person, and agree on small, realistic steps. The focus is on what the person wants to change and how to get there in manageable stages.
Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions
Lisa often uses cognitive behavioural therapy to help identify and change unhelpful thinking and behaviour patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, sleep problems and mood issues because it gives clear tools to try between sessions.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on values and accepting difficult thoughts while taking small committed steps. ACT can help when worry or avoidance gets in the way of living a meaningful life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to the person’s goals and try different techniques to see what fits. Decisions about methods are collaborative and adjusted as needed.
Online sessions can be arranged as video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text-based messaging. Video is good for a near face-to-face conversation, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits brief check-ins or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving or medical appointments and to maintain continuity when travel is involved.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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