About Lisa
Lisa Dorfman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 38 years helping people improve wellbeing. She practices in Florida and brings a practical, body-aware perspective to stress, anxiety, eating concerns, grief, and life transitions. She combines somatic work with talking therapies and skills-based tools.
Sessions often include attention to body sensations, mindfulness, and breathing alongside cognitive strategies. Lisa also uses approaches such as EMDR, DBT, and motivational interviewing when they fit the person's needs.
Background and approach
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She helps people name what feels hard, try small changes, and build skills they can use outside sessions. Many clients look for help with self-esteem, body image, career pressure, parenting stress, and recovering after trauma or loss.
Lisa has experience supporting people facing first responder stress, military-related concerns, postpartum depression, and end-of-life caregiving challenges. She also works with those coping with anger, relationship problems, and the fallout from infidelity. Practical steps are a focus in sessions.
Lisa works with each person to set clear goals and practice concrete strategies between appointments. She encourages steady progress and draws on the client's strengths to move forward. Sessions are offered in English and serve people in Florida as well as international clients.
She provides multiple online formats so people can choose what fits their routine and comfort.
How somatic and skills-based approaches work online
Somatic work pays attention to body sensations and how tension shows up in daily life. Online sessions can guide awareness of breathing, posture, and bodily cues to reduce anxiety and support healing after trauma. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding, giving people space to tell their story and set the pace of change. This approach helps people feel heard and gain clarity about what they want to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a problem-solving approach that looks at thoughts and behaviors. Online CBT often includes hands-on exercises, thought records, and practical homework to change unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Lisa works collaboratively to decide which methods fit each person's needs, goals, and comfort. She adapts tools over time so the work stays relevant and useful for day-to-day life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule around work, caregiving, or travel and let people use the format that feels safest. Licensed professionals can deliver the same conversational guidance, skill practice, and somatic coaching through these formats, helping clients build steady progress without needing to travel to an office.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Utah
- Languages
- English