About Lisa
Lisa Rivers is a licensed psychologist in Minnesota with 29 years of clinical experience. She offers calm, practical support for people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and relationship strain. Lisa focuses on helping people rebuild confidence and manage everyday struggles so they can move forward.
She uses straightforward, person-focused methods to help people understand what keeps them stuck. Sessions often involve identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors in small steps.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and short goal-oriented exercises are used to reduce overwhelm and build steadier routines. Lisa has worked with a wide range of concerns across her career. That includes grief, caregiver stress, bipolar mood challenges, and intimacy-related issues.
She also supports people dealing with attachment and abandonment needs, body image problems, and the fallout from divorce or domestic violence. Communication problems, codependency, and commitment worries are common topics in her work. She helps people develop clearer ways to express needs and set boundaries.
For those facing big life changes, she focuses on practical coping skills and rebuilding structure. Her sessions are person-centered and collaborative. Lisa explains options, listens for what matters most, and helps people choose strategies that fit their life.
She works in English and provides therapy via phone, video, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How Lisa's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps the client set the pace for change. This approach supports people who need time to feel understood before trying new skills.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. In short practical steps, clients learn to spot unhelpful thinking and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depression. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa will discuss options and collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, preferences, and daily life. She adjusts strategies over time based on what is helpful.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a lunch break. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, written reflections, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and continue progress between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
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