About Lisa
Lisa Bradford is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience helping people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, trauma, and addiction. She offers calm, straightforward support for day-to-day struggles and major life changes. Lisa writes plainly and meets people where they are.
She focuses on building hope and practical skills. Sessions center on what the person wants to change. Lisa uses simple tools to reduce symptoms and improve coping.
Background and approach
She helps people work through relationship and intimacy concerns, parenting strain, career stress, and issues tied to mood disorders. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental. She aims to create a partnership where goals are clear and progress is measurable.
Lisa listens closely and adjusts plans as needs shift over time. Lisa draws on approaches such as client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods. These tools help with behavior change, managing difficult thoughts, and setting realistic next steps.
She has experience supporting people affected by adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, serious illness and end-of-life concerns, first responder issues, and military-related matters. Lisa also works with conditions such as ADHD, bipolar disorder, dissociation, and mood disorders. Based in Virginia, Lisa brings decades of direct-care experience to each session.
Her aim is to help people find practical ways forward and sustain meaningful change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person’s own goals and experience. The therapist offers a listening, accepting stance and helps people identify what matters most to them and small steps to move forward. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, depression, and mood concerns. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation, which can help with stress, trauma symptoms, and persistent worry.Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about needs and preferences, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. Clients take an active role in setting goals and choosing which tools to use.
Online sessions can be delivered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues matter and for a fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Text and chat offer quick check-ins, shorter support between sessions, or a way to work when a full call is not possible. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and maintain continuity over time.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English