About Lisa
Lisa Raley is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) with 16 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, depression, and life transitions. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth support so clients can feel steadier day to day. Her approach is warm and strengths-based, aimed at building the skills people already have and adding new tools where they need them.
She sees problems as connected to many parts of life - physical health, emotions, relationships, work, and meaning.
Background and approach
Therapy usually starts by looking at which areas feel out of balance. Sessions include simple exercises, real-life plans, and gentle accountability to help small changes stick. Lisa draws from methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices, and acceptance and commitment ideas.
That mix helps with symptoms like panic, persistent worry, low mood, sleep disruption, and difficulties with focus or motivation. She also uses approaches that assist with relationship strain and intimacy concerns. People come to her for a wide range of struggles including grief, trauma, substance concerns, parenting stress, burnout, and career shifts.
Her work is practical and solution-oriented while still attending to deeper patterns that cause repeated pain. Sessions aim to balance short-term relief with longer-term life changes. Lisa practices in Alabama and conducts sessions in English.
She offers several online formats so people can choose what fits their schedule and communication style. To begin, someone completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules an appointment.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then clarify what matters most and take small committed steps toward those values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments, which tends to reduce panic, worry, and low mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and concentration.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily routines, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose or blend methods so sessions feel useful and match the person’s needs and preferences.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people read body language and do guided exercises. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Chat and messaging are helpful for quick check-ins, homework support, or when a shorter exchange fits into a busy day. These options make it simpler to maintain continuity during work, travel, or caregiving demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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