About Lisa
Lisa Warden is a licensed social worker with 16 years of clinical experience. She combines a practical focus on the mind-body link with a warm, approachable style. Lisa often uses humor and plain talk to help people take the first steps toward change.
Her background includes work with people recovering from trauma and addiction, and with personality-related struggles that leave someone feeling stuck. She pays attention to how physical sensations and body awareness connect to emotions, drawing on that connection during sessions.
Background and approach
Lisa wants clients to move from constant survival toward more ease and enjoyment in life. Sessions are collaborative and down-to-earth. Lisa meets people where they are, offers encouragement, and teaches skills that can be used between meetings.
She blends practical tools with steady support so progress feels manageable and clear. Lisa uses a mix of approaches, including client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, existential perspectives, and EMDR. She adapts these tools to each person’s needs rather than sticking to a single method.
Based in Michigan, Lisa works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addiction, relationship and intimacy concerns, ADHD, and many other life challenges. She welcomes international clients and offers sessions in English.
Approaches for online healing and practical change
Lisa blends client-centered therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and building a trusting relationship so people can speak freely and find their own answers. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at thoughts and behaviors and teaches clear tools to reduce anxiety, manage moods, and change unhelpful patterns.She also uses elements of dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills are needed. DBT-style skills help people cope with strong feelings, improve relationships, and respond differently to stress. Lisa will discuss these options and together decide which approaches fit a person's goals and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for full conversations and visual connection, phone can fit a shorter check-in or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging is useful for quick updates or when writing feels easier. These options help people fit sessions around work, travel, caregiving, or different schedules while keeping the therapeutic work consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- 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
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Utah, Maine, North Dakota
- Languages
- English
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