About Lisa
Lisa Rosario is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience in New York. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions. Many people come to her with anxiety, stress, grief, relationship concerns, and changes that feel overwhelming.
She speaks plainly and asks clear questions to help people begin to sort things out. Rosario trained at New York University and earned a bachelor’s degree from Antioch University.
Background and approach
She also teaches as an adjunct professor at Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work and is beginning doctoral work. Her long career includes work in hospitals, community settings, and academic roles that inform her everyday clinical judgment. In early meetings she asks straightforward questions about history, current struggles, symptoms, and relationships.
She listens for strengths and interests as well as patterns that cause pain. Together with the person she maps goals and practical next steps rather than promising quick fixes. Her toolbox includes a mix of well-known approaches such as cognitive behavioral methods, emotion-focused work, and acceptance-based strategies.
She tailors methods to the problem at hand, focusing on small, doable changes you can practice between sessions. She also applies skills from dialectical ideas when people feel overwhelmed by intense emotions. Clients who choose her often want clear guidance, a calm presence, and help turning insight into action.
She is comfortable addressing issues like trauma, ADHD-related symptoms, caregiving strain, eating and body-image concerns, and intimacy difficulties. Conversations may include practical coping skills, communication work, and planning for everyday life.
Approaches that guide online work
Lisa often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy when working online. ACT focuses on clarifying values and learning to live alongside difficult thoughts and feelings rather than trying to eliminate them, which can help with chronic anxiety and life transitions. CBT targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns with practical exercises and homework to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy ideas to create a supportive, respectful space. That approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and building on a person’s own resources so goals feel realistic and meaningful. Together with the client she discusses which methods fit best and adjusts the plan as needs and goals change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets you work face-to-face for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit a break from work or when bandwidth is limited. Chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, tracking progress, or practicing brief interventions between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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