About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Sullivan focuses on stress and anxiety and related struggles like grief, low self-esteem, and parenting strain. She is a CA Psychologist (California Psychologist license 17800) and brings ten years of clinical experience to her work.
She speaks English and practices from California. Her approach is straightforward and practical. She uses client-centered methods to listen and build on what matters to each person.
She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors that reduce worry and improve mood.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused. People can expect to talk through current problems, try small experiments between sessions, and track what helps. Dr.
Sullivan aims to make therapy useful for everyday life rather than full of jargon. Her background blends academic training with hands-on clinical work. She has experience with parenting concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, blended family challenges, and midlife transitions.
She has worked with concerns that link body and mind, such as somatization and seasonal mood shifts. Dr. Sullivan also supports people facing fertility-related stress, pregnancy and postpartum mood changes, and the stress of divorce or separation.
Her work often includes practical communication skills for resolving ongoing family and relationship friction. She invites people who want clearer direction and less overwhelm to begin a collaborative process.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's priorities. Online sessions using this approach start by identifying what matters most and building goals together, which can help with stress, parenting strain, and relationship problems.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice thought patterns that increase anxiety and test small behavior changes. In online work CBT often uses short exercises, thought records, and practical homework that can be reviewed in video or chat between sessions to reduce worry and improve mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with clients to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques as progress is tracked. Clients and the therapist decide together whether to focus on thought work, skills practice, or a combination of both.
Online formats offer flexibility for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging support quick check-ins or brief skill practice between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, parenting, and other daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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