About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Cooney is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, grief, addiction, or trauma.
Many clients come for help with relationship concerns, bingeing or restrictive eating patterns, and questions about identity and sexuality. Her sessions focus on creating a calm, accepting atmosphere where people can speak honestly. She listens closely and works to understand each person’s story before suggesting steps forward.
Background and approach
Expect straightforward, practical conversations that aim to reduce distress and build daily coping skills. Dr. Cooney uses a mix of methods depending on what a person needs.
She may use client-centered listening to follow what matters most to the client, psychodynamic ideas to look at past patterns, or EMDR to address traumatic memories. Hypnotherapy and existential conversations are also options when they fit the goals. She has supported people dealing with chronic illness, cancer-related concerns, body image and attachment struggles, and difficult family histories.
Dr. Cooney also works with those facing codependency, communication breakdowns, divorce and separation, and substance misuse. Sessions are offered in English and are available to clients in Texas and internationally.
Dr. Cooney adapts her approach so people can work on clearer communication, steadier mood, and healthier habits at a pace that feels manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that adapt to you
Client-centered therapy puts the client's priorities first. In this approach the therapist listens without judgment and follows what matters most to the individual, helping people clarify goals and try small, useful changes. Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that developed over time and how past relationships influence current behavior; it can help when recurring problems keep coming up in relationships or mood.Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used to address distressing memories. It guides clients to process and lessen the intensity of traumatic memories so those memories interfere less with daily life. These approaches are chosen based on the issue at hand and what the person hopes to change.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk through options, check in about what feels helpful, and adjust the plan as progress is made. Clients are invited to share preferences and to try different methods until they find a good fit.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas, Arizona, District of Columbia, Oregon, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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