About Lisa
Lisa Rosario is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of practice in New York. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a warm, straightforward manner to sessions. She aims to make the first steps easier for people who are nervous about starting therapy.
Her background includes work across many settings and with many concerns. She has supported people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship struggles, eating and body-image issues, ADHD symptoms, chronic pain and health challenges, and caregiving stress.
Background and approach
She also helps with career questions, parenting strain, intimacy concerns, and compassion fatigue. Lisa uses a range of practical approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on somatic ideas that connect body sensations to feelings, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy tools for values-based action, and cognitive-behavioral strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
She also uses client-centered listening and skills from dialectical methods when emotion regulation is a focus. In a first meeting she asks a few clear questions about current struggles and history. She listens for strengths, relationships, and goals.
Then she and the client outline practical next steps and a plan that fits daily life. People who prefer direct guidance along with compassionate listening often find her approach useful. She teaches at Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work and continues professional study while building therapy plans that fit each person’s priorities.
How Lisa integrates approaches online and in-session
Lisa blends somatic-informed work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered listening. Somatic-informed work pays attention to body sensations and breathing to help people notice how stress shows up in the body and calm physical responses. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small steps that match those values, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Client-centered therapy centers on listening and understanding so the person feels heard and can explore options at their own pace.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will ask about what matters most, try small techniques, and check in about what helps. Together they adjust methods based on pace, goals, and comfort so the plan fits day-to-day life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexible ways to connect from home or work. These options make it easier to keep appointments around busy schedules, follow up between sessions, and use techniques in real time when challenges arise.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish