About Lisa
Lisa Westcoat is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 14 years in the mental health field. She offers straightforward, compassionate care for people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and relationship concerns. Her manner is warm and practical, with a direct but encouraging style that helps people take next steps.
She uses somatic-informed approaches alongside acceptance and commitment work and client-centered methods. Sessions focus on what is happening now in the body and mind, and on small, usable shifts that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Conversations are plain and goal-oriented, and she adapts techniques to each person’s needs. Lisa has extensive experience in addiction treatment, family conflict, and issues tied to guilt, shame, and codependency. She also works with anger, control issues, domestic violence impacts, and intimacy challenges.
Her practice often draws on motivational strategies and practical cognitive tools to interrupt unhelpful cycles of thought and behavior. Her style blends empathy, humor, and realism. Clients can expect respectful, down-to-earth guidance focused on clear options and steps.
The therapist helps people build coping skills, improve communication, and manage life changes in ways that fit their values. Sessions can be tailored to address parenting strain, boundaries, impulsivity, jealousy, abandonment wounds, and recovery from relational hurts. The work emphasizes collaboration and steady progress toward more satisfying day-to-day living.
How Lisa integrates approaches in online therapy
Somatic-informed work pays attention to bodily experience and gentle awareness of physical sensations. It can help when stress, trauma, or anxiety show up as tightness, reactivity, or overwhelm in the body. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on clarifying values and taking committed action even when difficult thoughts or feelings appear; it is useful for managing anxiety, depression, and motivation struggles. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening closely and offering nonjudgmental support so people feel understood and can find their own solutions.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try different tools and tailor the work based on what actually helps in daily life rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. These options let people fit therapy around work and family demands and keep continuity when life is busy or travel is necessary. The variety of formats supports different needs - some people prefer talking live, others benefit from shorter messages or chat-based check-ins between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English