About Lisa
Lisa Travis-Johnson is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with anxiety, depression, addictions, trauma, and stress. Lisa speaks plainly and listens with empathy to help people feel understood.
Her sessions are practical and tailored to each person. She draws on approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and person-centered work to meet individual needs. Conversations focus on concrete steps people can try between meetings and on noticing patterns that get in the way of feeling better.
Background and approach
Lisa also brings experience from the corrections field, which influences how she approaches safety, boundaries, and direct problem solving. She pays attention to how trauma, attachment, and past losses shape present behavior and relationships. That background helps when someone is coping with grief, intimacy concerns, or issues around trust and abandonment.
People can expect a respectful, interactive style. The aim is to create an environment where thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Lisa invites curiosity and small experiments to build confidence and reduce overwhelm.
Her work often addresses related life problems such as body image, communication struggles, codependency, and compassion fatigue. Sessions move at a pace each person chooses, with attention to practical coping skills and longer term goals.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Lisa often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try small experiments to change them; this approach is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Person-centered methods are also part of her work, which means sessions focus on listening, respect, and supporting each person’s own goals. She also considers trauma-focused ideas to help people process past harm and manage its effects in everyday life.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they choose techniques and pacing that fit the person's needs rather than forcing a single method.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different situations. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone calls work when bandwidth or screen time is limited, and messaging formats can fit quick check-ins or people who prefer written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue work between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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