About Lisa
Lisa Westcoat is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 14 years of experience in mental health and addiction treatment. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Her style blends warmth and straightforward guidance so conversations feel honest and practical.
She helps clients with substance-related struggles and process addictions, offering support for guilt, shame, and co-dependency. Lisa also works with people facing trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She aims to interrupt destructive patterns and improve daily functioning. Sessions use a mix of approaches chosen to match each person’s needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy are often part of her work, alongside mindfulness and client-centered methods.
She adapts techniques to focus on what will help most in the moment. Lisa draws on experience from addiction treatment settings and community mental health work. That background informs practical strategies for managing cravings, setting boundaries, and rebuilding trust in relationships.
Her direct but compassionate manner helps clients take concrete steps forward. She encourages a collaborative process where goals are clear and progress is tracked. People who want honest feedback, practical tools, and steady support often find this approach helpful.
Sessions are offered via several online formats to fit different schedules and needs.
How Lisa Uses Therapy Approaches Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify their values and take committed action even when anxiety or difficult thoughts show up. It can be useful for stress, generalized anxiety, and coping with life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking patterns and replace them with practical skills for mood and behavior change, which often helps with anxiety, depression, and anger. Client-Centered Therapy puts the person’s goals and experience at the center of the work, offering empathy and support while other techniques are used to build skills and insight.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked in the past. Together they try methods and adjust the plan as needed until the best fit emerges.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls are useful for in-depth conversations and learning new skills with visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging offer quick, written ways to process feelings, check progress, or get brief support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to work therapy into a busy life while using the approaches that fit each person’s needs.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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