About Lisa
Lisa Sack is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Virginia with 19 years of experience. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and addiction concerns. Lisa also supports those coping with trauma, grief, self-esteem struggles, sleep or eating issues, and career transitions.
She approaches therapy as a collaborative process. Lisa treats each person as the expert on their life and looks for strengths to build on.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on practical steps that can be tried between meetings and adjusted as needed. Lisa draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to address specific problems like anxiety, bipolar mood shifts, ADHD-related challenges, and compassion fatigue. She also brings experience addressing first responder and veteran concerns, seasonal affective disorder, and self-harm risk.
Her aim is to make therapy feel sensible and useful from the start. People can expect straightforward conversation and goal-focused work. Lisa prioritizes clear goals, manageable tasks, and regular check-ins about progress.
She encourages small changes that add up over time and helps people find ways to cope with life’s demands. Sessions are offered in English and are tailored to each person’s needs. Lisa supports a range of emotional and practical concerns and helps people set realistic next steps toward feeling better.
Approaches used online and how they help
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical strategies. One common approach emphasizes identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety and improve mood; this helps people break cycles of worry and build coping skills. Another approach centers on strengthening relationships and communication, helping people manage conflict, improve intimacy, and set healthier boundaries.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to understand their goals, preferences, and day-to-day constraints, then try techniques that fit those needs. Plans are adjusted over time based on what is helpful and what is not.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for quick check-ins, and text sessions let people message between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or shift schedules while keeping focus on progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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