About Lisa
Lisa Butrymowicz welcomes people who are weighed down by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma, or mood challenges. She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, practicing in Florida and brings 23 years of experience to her work. Her style is respectful and straightforward, with a focus on practical steps that help people feel steadier in day-to-day life.
Lisa builds a plan with each person rather than using one-size-fits-all techniques. Conversations in the first sessions focus on immediate needs and what a realistic next step looks like.
Background and approach
She helps people set small goals, practice coping skills, and track progress in ways that fit their routine. Her background includes long-term clinical work with mood and trauma-related concerns. That experience informs how she notices patterns in relationships, mood swings, and stress reactions.
She pays attention to attachment history and how past hurts shape current choices. In sessions she draws from approaches that teach new ways to think and act in hard moments. Treatment often involves learning skills for emotion regulation, changing unhelpful thoughts, and practicing clearer communication.
Lisa aims to make sessions understandable and useful from the first visit. She works with adults facing ADHD symptoms, bipolar mood patterns, and the aftereffects of abuse or abandonment. People who need help managing caregiver stress, blended family dynamics, or identity and intimacy concerns related to kink and alternative sexual culture also come for support.
Lisa meets people where they are and helps them move toward steadier days.
Therapeutic approaches that translate online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on identifying values and taking small committed steps toward them while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help when anxiety or stress keeps someone from living the life they want. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, teaches practical tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through structured practice and skill building, which is useful for anxiety, mood shifts, and managing daily stress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, needs, and preferences, then try strategies that fit those priorities. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, with regular check-ins on progress and next steps.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows for face-to-face conversation; phone can be a good option when bandwidth is limited; live chat and text messaging work for quick check-ins or when a shorter format fits a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while still using proven therapeutic techniques.
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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
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English