About Lisa
Lisa Warden is a licensed social worker with 16 years of experience. She draws on a background that began in bodywork and massage therapy, and she uses that awareness of the mind-body link when talking with people about stress and anxiety. She has spent much of her career helping people in recovery from trauma and addictions.
Lisa also works with mood and adjustment struggles, including grief, depression, bipolar concerns, and trouble coping with life changes.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how symptoms can keep someone stuck in survival mode and get in the way of everyday goals. Lisa aims for a warm, flexible style in sessions. She often brings gentle humor and meets people where they are.
The focus is on practical skills, encouragement, and small steps that add up over time. Her approach can include talking through thinking patterns, learning new coping skills, and processing upsetting memories. She blends client-centered care with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and EMDR when appropriate.
Clients can expect direct conversation about what is most pressing, along with guidance on building routines for sleep, eating, and self-care. Lisa helps people work toward greater calm, improved relationships, and a clearer sense of purpose. She practices in Michigan and works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, self-esteem, parenting strain, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and intimacy-related issues.
Approaches and how online work looks
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It means the therapist listens with curiosity, follows the client's lead, and helps people find their own answers. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches concrete strategies to reduce anxiety and change unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress without making things worse.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. From there she tailors techniques and checks in over time to adjust the plan so it fits the person's needs.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let you see visual cues and work in real time, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or you want a quick check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, skills practice, and ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into a busy life and to access therapy from Michigan or other locations where licensed professionals can work with international clients.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Utah, Maine, North Dakota
- Languages
- English
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