About Lisa
Lisa Ritter is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of clinical experience in California. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, work through grief and loss, and address parenting concerns. She also offers executive coaching to help professionals clarify goals and move forward.
Her style is straightforward and practical. She treats each person as the expert of their own story and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with room to name what feels hard and try small, doable steps forward. Lisa has worked with people facing difficult life transitions such as divorce, blended family challenges, and end-of-life caregiving. She also helps people struggling with communication breakdowns, workplace stress, money worries, feelings of guilt or shame, and questions about life purpose or midlife changes.
Over two decades she has supported clients with issues related to narcissism, self-love, and the strain that comes from major relationship shifts. Her coaching work focuses on practical plans, clearer priorities, and better day-to-day functioning for busy professionals. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
To get started, a short matching questionnaire is completed and then sessions are scheduled according to therapist availability.
Approaches for anxiety and life transitions online
Lisa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical tools. One approach centers on stress and anxiety management through breathing, grounding, and short behavioral experiments to test unhelpful thoughts. This helps people build daily habits that reduce tension and improve focus.Another common method addresses grief and major life changes with paced processing and routines that support adjustment. These steps aim to help people make sense of loss, reestablish a sense of purpose, and move toward meaningful activities at their own pace.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lisa works with each person to identify current needs, personal goals, and what feels most useful in day-to-day life. Together they try methods, adjust plans, and track small wins so the work stays relevant and doable.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people see facial cues and work more deeply, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, and other commitments while maintaining steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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