About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Cooney is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience. She makes space for people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, or depression.
She also works with clients who are navigating LGBTQ+ concerns, trauma, or struggles with eating and anger. Her sessions are practical and paced to each person. She listens first and helps clients notice how emotions show up in the body and daily life.
Background and approach
Together they set clear goals and small steps that fit a client's routine. Dr. Cooney uses a blend of somatic work, client-centered conversation, and existential reflection.
She also draws on EMDR and hypnotherapy when those methods match a client's needs. The focus is on helping people feel more grounded and able to manage tough moments. Over her career she has supported people facing relationship strain, family of origin issues, codependency, grief, chronic illness, and substance use concerns.
She helps clients sort communication problems, commitment worries, and dissociation with calm guidance and practical strategies. Dr. Cooney holds the Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist credential, CA LMFT 38608 and TX LMFT 202793.
She practices from Texas and offers therapy in English. Sessions are available via video, phone, chat, or text messaging for people in the U.S. and internationally.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Somatic work helps people notice where stress and emotion live in the body, such as tight shoulders or shallow breathing, and uses gentle movements and grounding practices to shift those sensations; this can be helpful for anxiety, trauma, and chronic stress.Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the client's lead, creating space to talk through what matters most and build practical coping skills for daily life.
EMDR is an approach that uses guided attention to help process traumatic memories and reduce their emotional intensity; it is often used for trauma, abuse, and distressing memories.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods feel most helpful based on needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can include a mix of approaches and are adjusted over time as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, access care from different locations, and continue work between in-person appointments when that suits the client.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas, Arizona, District of Columbia, Oregon, New Jersey
- Languages
- English