About Lisa
Lisa Pepper-Satkin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She offers straightforward support for common life struggles like relationship strain, grief, and big transitions. Her style blends therapy and coaching to help people move from stuck to taking practical steps.
Lisa focuses on clear goals and actionable plans. Sessions often include problem-solving and accountability so clients can try new behaviors between meetings.
Background and approach
She helps people name what matters, reduce overwhelm, and practice self-compassion as they change old patterns. Over three decades she has worked in psychotherapy, coaching, and leadership development. That background shapes a practical approach aimed at everyday results rather than jargon.
She also runs workshops and retreats that pair psychological tools with creative exercises for people who want more hands-on learning. Clients can expect direct guidance plus space to reflect. Lisa uses curiosity and intuition to notice patterns and suggest alternatives.
She pays attention to communication problems, control issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose and self-love. Based in California, Lisa offers help with divorce and separation challenges and supports women navigating major life changes. Her work combines steady accountability with creative problem-solving so people can move toward lives they value.
Approaches that guide online work
Lisa integrates evidence-based therapeutic techniques with coaching practices to support people facing anxiety and life transitions. One common method she uses focuses on goal-oriented coaching and behavioral steps - breaking larger goals into manageable actions and checking progress over time. This helps when anxiety or overwhelm makes forward motion difficult.Another approach centers on exploring emotional patterns and communication habits to reduce relationship strain and improve self-awareness. That work helps with grief, control issues, forgiveness, and strengthening self-love by practicing new ways of relating to oneself and others.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which techniques to try. Adjustments are made as progress is monitored so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for quicker check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, family, and travel while keeping momentum on goals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
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- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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