About Lisa
Lisa Patton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alabama. She focuses on calm, practical work with people struggling with stress and anxiety and helps them take the first steps toward feeling more like themselves. She creates a simple, straightforward space where clients can talk about what matters most.
Sessions focus on listening first, then building small, doable skills to reduce symptoms and improve daily routines. Lisa aims for clear, step-by-step plans rather than long lectures.
Background and approach
Her approach blends Client-Centered Therapy with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. That means she starts by following the person's lead and offering understanding, then adds exercises and thought-focused tools that can change unhelpful patterns. This mix is useful for worry, panic, sleep problems, and low mood.
Lisa has seven years of professional experience. She has worked with people facing grief, relationship stress, parenting strain, trauma and abuse, and mood-related concerns including bipolar disorder. She also addresses issues such as obsessive thoughts, panic attacks, postpartum depression, and compassion fatigue.
Practical matters are part of the work. She helps clients break problems into manageable steps, practice new skills between sessions, and keep progress measurable. People who want clear guidance paired with warm listening often find this style helpful.
To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions. Therapy uses regular meetings and flexible messaging options to fit busy lives.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and understanding. The therapist follows the person's lead, reflects feelings, and helps them name what matters. This approach is helpful for building trust, coping with grief, and reducing isolation.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, behaviors, and feelings. It uses short exercises and tools to change patterns that feed anxiety or low mood. CBT is useful for panic, social anxiety, sleep issues, and repetitive or intrusive thoughts.
Finding the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will work with each person to test what helps, adjust techniques, and prioritize goals. Clients decide what feels useful and the plan is adapted over time to match needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people read nonverbal cues and practice new skills in real time. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let clients send updates, try brief exercises between meetings, and fit support into a busy day. These options make it easier to maintain steady progress while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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