About Malisa
Malisa Hepner is a licensed clinical social worker in Oklahoma who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship tension, and life changes. She presents a direct, practical style and aims to make sessions feel straightforward and useful for everyday life. People who want clear guidance and honest feedback may find her approach comfortable.
She draws on her personal experience with complex trauma to shape how she supports others, while keeping the focus on each person's goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skills for managing strong emotions and building steadier relationships. Malisa blends problem-solving with moments of emotional processing so clients leave with concrete next steps. Her work addresses self-esteem, motivation, grief and loss, and common struggles like communication problems and control issues.
She also helps people navigate divorce, separation, forgiveness, guilt, and shame. For those feeling isolated or searching for life purpose, she offers space to clarify values and take small, doable actions. Malisa uses practices from attachment-based work, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies.
That mix lets her switch between skills training, emotional connection, and short-term problem solving depending on what a person needs. Sessions aim to be practical and grounded in real life. Clients who prefer a candid, experience-informed therapist who pairs emotion work with clear tools may resonate with her style.
She works in English and holds an Oklahoma LCSW credential.
Therapeutic approaches you can try online
Attachment-based work focuses on how close relationships shape feelings and reactions. In therapy this looks like identifying patterns in how someone connects and practicing new ways to ask for support or set boundaries. It can help with anxiety that links to relationship worries and trust issues.Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches specific skills for handling intense emotions and improving day-to-day functioning. Those skills include distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and communication techniques useful for stress, anxiety, and anger. Sessions often mix teaching and practice so people can use the skills between meetings.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, concerns, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills training, emotional processing, or short-term problem solving and can change course if something isn’t working.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy fit busy lives. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to use video. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, skill reminders, or people who communicate better in writing. These options make it easier to maintain consistent work on anxiety and life stress without extra travel.
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What this therapist works with
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- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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