About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Tomlinson is a HCPC-registered clinician who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress and phobias. She offers a calm, compassionate approach and aims to make it easier to talk about hard things.
Her style is warm and hopeful, with sessions paced to each person’s needs. She draws on a mix of practical methods to help people change unhelpful patterns. That can mean learning skills to manage strong emotions, trying new ways of responding to fears, or working through painful memories.
Background and approach
The work is collaborative - goals and steps are decided together. Lisa trained and worked in the NHS for nine years across several services. That experience shaped her practical focus and her interest in trauma, addictions and mood difficulties.
She combines different approaches rather than relying on a single method. In sessions she uses elements from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, EMDR, mindfulness and trauma-focused work. Those approaches can be useful for panic, obsessive thinking, phobias, grief and problems with self-esteem or control.
Appointments are available in several formats, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Lisa works with people in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients. If someone wants to begin, they complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that suits them.
How chosen approaches work online
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviours. It often uses practical exercises and short tasks between sessions to lower anxiety and reduce avoidance. DBT, or Dialectical Behaviour Therapy, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving distress tolerance through structured exercises and coaching-style guidance. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process distressing memories by using bilateral stimulation alongside recall, which can reduce the intensity of traumatic reactions.Deciding which approach to use is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, symptoms and preferences and then suggest options. That choice is collaborative and can change as progress is made, blending elements from different methods when helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins or for people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into daily life and to keep continuity across locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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