About Lisa
Lisa Warden is a licensed social worker with 16 years of experience. She holds a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). Lisa brings a practical focus on the mind-body link to her work, drawing on an earlier career as a massage therapist to notice how the body and emotions connect.
She often helps people recovering from trauma and addictions. She also supports those dealing with persistent personality-related struggles that keep them in survival mode.
Background and approach
Lisa aims to help clients move from coping to enjoying life more fully. Her style is warm and flexible. She meets people where they are and uses encouragement, practical skills, and sometimes humor to make progress feel possible.
Sessions emphasize safety, pacing, and clear steps clients can try between meetings. Lisa uses somatic ideas alongside client-centered listening and evidence-informed skills work. That blend helps people notice bodily responses, talk through difficult thoughts, and practice new ways of coping.
She tailors each session to the person’s needs and pace. People come to Lisa for a wide range of concerns including anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, ADHD, relationship and intimacy questions, and issues around self-esteem and career. She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiver stress, eating and sleeping difficulties, and coping with life changes.
Sessions are offered in English and Lisa accepts international clients. She works through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How therapeutic approaches and online sessions work together
Lisa blends somatic-informed work with client-centered listening and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). Somatic-informed work helps people notice bodily sensations and how tension or breath relate to emotions, which can be useful for trauma, anxiety, and stress. Client-centered listening focuses on meeting the person where they are, offering empathy and space to make their own choices. CBT helps identify unhelpful thoughts and teaches practical exercises to change reactions and behaviors.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. Lisa talks with each person about their goals, symptoms, and preferences, and together they try methods that fit the client’s needs. She adjusts pacing and techniques as progress unfolds so the work stays focused and manageable.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face connection when that feels important. Phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging give shorter or more flexible ways to check in and practice skills between sessions. These options support ongoing contact, reduce travel, and let people choose what feels most comfortable for working on stress, trauma recovery, or daily coping skills.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- 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