About Lisa
Lisa Seidel is a licensed social worker who guides people facing stress and anxiety toward clearer coping steps. She works with individuals dealing with grief, depression, relationship strain, parenting pressures, addictions, and trauma. Her tone is respectful and direct, aiming to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or overwhelmed.
With two decades of practice in New York, Lisa draws on long experience across clinical and community settings.
Background and approach
She listens first, then builds a plan that fits each person's situation and goals. That plan can include short-term strategies for acute stress or longer work on recurring patterns that keep problems returning. Sessions are conversational and practical.
Lisa focuses on what helps you feel steadier day to day and what you can try between appointments. She makes space for emotion and for problem-solving in equal measure. Lisa also brings experience addressing compassion fatigue, issues common to first responders, and concerns that come up around aging and hospice work.
She pays attention to how identity and life stage shape stress and coping so the work stays relevant to real life. People who choose her often want a straightforward, collaborative approach. Lisa tailors the pace and tools to each person, and she supports people as they try new ways of responding to old problems.
Approaches and how they work online
Lisa uses evidence-based techniques that focus on skills and understanding. One approach helps people recognize unhelpful thinking and try alternative ways of responding; it teaches concrete tools for handling worry and low mood. Another approach emphasizes working through difficult memories and reactions by building safety and new coping strategies, which can reduce reactivity over time.Choosing the right method is a shared process. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has and hasn’t helped before, and how you prefer to work. Together you will try an approach and adjust it if needed so the work fits your life and pace.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy week. Video lets you have face-to-face conversation from wherever you are, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for quick check-ins, and messaging helps keep momentum between appointments. These options make it simpler to keep regular contact and apply new skills in daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- First responder issues
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English
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