About Lisa
Lisa Rakusin is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress and anxiety. She brings 11 years of California practice to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Lisa emphasizes a respectful, down-to-earth approach that centers the client's own experience.
She starts by listening to what matters most and building on a person’s strengths. Conversations focus on specific problems like grief, life transitions, or relationship struggles.
Background and approach
Lisa uses clear tools to manage symptoms and to help clients make steady changes day to day. Her work combines understanding how relationships shape emotions with hands-on techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and habits. That means talking through patterns, trying new ways of coping, and practicing skills between sessions.
She also uses methods for processing past traumatic experiences when that fits the client’s goals. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s comfort. Lisa supports people working through addiction, parenting stress, career concerns, and self-esteem challenges.
She also addresses aging and geriatric issues, codependency, family of origin problems, and issues related to forgiveness and self-love. Clients can expect straightforward language and concrete suggestions. The emphasis is on small, achievable steps that lead to clearer thinking and more manageable days.
Lisa aims to empower people so they can move toward the life they want.
How Lisa’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current feelings and reactions. Online sessions use discussion and reflection to notice patterns in attachments and then try new ways of connecting with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In remote sessions clients learn specific skills and practice them between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lisa will discuss goals, preferences, and past experiences to decide which methods fit best. That collaboration makes it easier to try techniques that feel useful and to adjust the plan over time.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client meet face to face when visual cues help the process. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in fits the schedule. Live chat and text-based messaging allow ongoing support between sessions and can work well for quick updates, coping reminders, or when writing feels easier than speaking.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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