About Lisa
Lisa Hernandez is a licensed clinical social worker who has spent a decade helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and family concerns. She practices in Arizona as an LCSW and focuses on practical support for everyday struggles. Her approach aims to make the first step feel doable, not overwhelming.
She keeps sessions straightforward and grounded. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what feels most important to the person sitting across from her.
Background and approach
Lisa encourages people to name what they are feeling and to try concrete steps between sessions. Her work often addresses panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, and the lingering effects of abuse. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, chronic illness or pain, and workplace pressures.
Parents who feel stuck around parenting choices may find clear ideas and coping strategies in her sessions. Lisa uses evidence-informed methods like client-centered and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people test new ways of thinking and coping. She also draws on solution-focused and trauma-aware strategies when a brief, targeted plan is useful.
Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness. With ten years of experience, she aims to help people build small, sustainable changes. Lisa talks plainly, offers practical tools, and works to make therapy feel relevant to daily life.
How Lisa’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on what matters to the person in front of her. The therapist listens without judgment and follows the client’s pace to help clarify goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes in behavior to reduce anxiety and panic attacks.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lisa will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and recommend methods that fit. This collaborative process lets the plan evolve based on what helps most in real life.
Online sessions use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and walkthroughs, while phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a quieter connection is needed. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and ongoing support between longer sessions, which can help when schedules are tight or immediate reinforcement is useful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Arizona, Nevada
- Languages
- English