About Lisa
Lisa Connelly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 15 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage anxiety, stress, trauma, depression, relationship strain, and issues like grief, addiction, and ADHD. Lisa works with concerns ranging from sleep and eating struggles to career stress and low self-esteem.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings. She listens for patterns in relationships and behavior and helps clients find clearer choices in daily life.
Background and approach
Lisa uses a mix of therapeutic approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and make small behavior changes. She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is part of her toolkit to help people clarify values and take action despite difficult emotions. Her background includes work in inpatient and outpatient settings, detox and residential treatment, therapeutic group homes, and independent practice. That variety has shaped a practical style that aims to be direct and compassionate.
Lisa explains concepts in plain language and helps clients set achievable goals. People who come to Lisa often want clear tools for coping and improved communication in relationships. She emphasizes steady progress over quick fixes and partners with clients to build skills that fit their daily routines.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online care
Lisa commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice painful thoughts and feelings and still move toward what matters to them. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes because it focuses on values and small committed actions.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot thinking patterns that lead to distress and to try practical behavior changes. CBT is often helpful for sleep problems, depression, anxiety, and issues like body image or eating concerns.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. A therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try different methods, and adjust plans as needed. The work is collaborative and based on what helps the individual make steady progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging suit quick check-ins and people who prefer typing. These options help fit therapy into school, work, caregiving, or travel schedules by reducing commute time and offering more appointment choices.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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