About Lisa
Lisa Wyatt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by teaching practical ways to handle stress, anxiety, relationship problems, or life changes. Her tone is direct and supportive so clients can start making small changes right away.
She has 19 years of experience working with people facing trauma and abuse, addiction, grief, compassion fatigue, and parenting challenges. Lisa approaches conversations in a straightforward way and helps people notice how their feelings and reactions connect to what they do next.
Background and approach
She looks for realistic steps clients can try between sessions. Her work is grounded in client-centered principles, which means the person in therapy sets the pace and goals. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand relational patterns, cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and mindfulness to help calm intense emotions.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels unsure about making changes. Sessions emphasize strengths and practical problem solving. Lisa helps people spot what is already working and build on those skills.
She also helps them reframe old stories about themselves so they can try different choices in relationships, work, or parenting. People come to her for a range of concerns including intimacy struggles, blended family issues, chronic illness, codependency, and issues around commitment and communication. She aims to make therapy a collaborative space where clients leave with clear, doable steps.
Approaches that translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on how early and current relationships shape reactions now. Online sessions can use this approach to map patterns in close relationships and try new ways of relating. Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals and rhythm first, letting conversations unfold at a comfortable pace and helping clients name what matters most. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the thought-behavior link and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and actions, which translates well to homework and short practice between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will work together with each client to identify goals, test different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. This collaborative stance means the methods used are tailored to the person’s needs, preferences, and daily life demands.
Online therapy offers practical advantages for fitting care into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face work when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in fits a lunch break. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief reflections, skill practice, or ongoing encouragement between longer sessions. These options make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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