About Lisa
Lisa Parise is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of practice. She works from Virginia and brings a steady, compassionate approach to people facing hard moments. She often helps with anxiety alongside depression, grief, trauma, and addiction concerns.
Her style is direct and warm. She uses plain language and practical tools in sessions. People can expect a focus on understanding patterns, managing distress, and building skills for day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Lisa draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new ways of reacting. Dialectical behavior therapy and mindfulness practices are folded in when people need emotion regulation or grounding tools.
She has a background that includes work with trauma, substance use concerns, LGBT issues, and compassion fatigue. Lisa pays attention to the role of family of origin, attachment wounds, and identity-related stress when those matters come up. Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit varied schedules.
The subscription model used for sessions can be canceled at any time. To begin, a short questionnaire and scheduling step are used to match people to a therapist. Lisa approaches therapy as a collaborative effort.
She listens first, then helps people choose techniques that fit their goals and daily life.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships affect current patterns. It looks at how trust, closeness, and past hurts shape reactions and helps people try new ways of relating and regulating emotions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses concrete exercises to test unhelpful beliefs and build practical coping skills for problems like anxiety and depression.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist listens to goals and preferences, then suggests techniques to try, adjusting the plan as progress is tracked together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller interaction, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can be used for brief check-ins or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to keep continuity of care across distance.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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