About Lisa
Lisa Adler is a licensed professional counselor with a mental health designation (LPC-MH) practicing in South Dakota. She brings 26 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship struggles. Lisa centers each meeting on the person's strengths and practical steps toward change.
Her approach is straightforward and nonjudgmental. She listens for what matters most and offers evidence-based techniques to address problems like parenting stress, sleep and eating concerns, addictions, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what a person can do differently between visits. Lisa also supports people dealing with trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress. She helps with more complex situations too, including bipolar symptoms, ADHD-related challenges, caregiver fatigue, chronic illness, and blended family stress.
She frames these concerns in everyday language and sets clear, doable goals. Communication is direct and honest. Lisa encourages clients to name their priorities, then she helps design steps they can take to reach those goals.
Progress is tracked in ordinary terms - mood, sleep, relationships, and daily functioning. She responds to messages several times a day and asks for patience when replies take a bit longer due to other responsibilities. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire, then schedules sessions that fit their life.
How evidence-based methods work online
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One common approach is goal-focused problem solving, which breaks larger problems into small, practical steps to reduce anxiety, improve sleep, or manage stress. Another is skills coaching that teaches concrete behaviors for handling relationships, parenting challenges, or impulses related to addictions and anger. Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences, then try methods that fit. Progress is reviewed together and approaches are adjusted as needed so the plan stays useful and manageable. Online formats make regular contact easier for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a deeper exchange is helpful. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing helps someone organize thoughts. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota
- Languages
- English
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