About Lisa
Lisa Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who brings 20 years of experience to her work in Virginia. She offers a calm, straightforward approach for people facing anxiety, mood shifts, trauma, and life stress. Lisa speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Her background includes work in outpatient clinics, residential treatment, hospitals, and schools. She also teaches graduate social work courses, with a focus on how childhood trauma affects later life.
Background and approach
That classroom work informs how she thinks about long-term healing and recovery. In practice she helps people manage depression, bipolar disorder, and anxiety symptoms. She also supports those processing grief, compassion fatigue, or the aftermath of sexual assault and other abuse.
Lisa pays attention to how relationships and family strain affect daily functioning. Sessions typically emphasize clear goals, coping strategies, and steady pacing. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques suited to the person’s needs.
The aim is to make therapy understandable and usable between visits. People meet with her for help with parenting stress, career strain, anger, ADHD challenges, and transitions like job or family change. She works in ways that fit a person’s schedule and practical needs.
Lisa practices in Virginia as an LCSW and conducts sessions in English.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete change and relief. One common approach is trauma-focused work that helps people process past harms and reduce their impact on daily life; this often includes grounding skills and structured ways to revisit difficult memories safely. Another frequent focus is mood-focused work for depression and bipolar disorder that emphasizes tracking mood patterns, building routines, and adding practical tools to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, and then choose methods that fit. That decision is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible access. Video calls let people use visual cues and a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and messaging are useful for brief check-ins, quick coping reminders, or when a shorter touchpoint fits a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, school, and caregiving demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English