About Lisa
Lisa Leibowitz greets readers with a calm, straightforward presence. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Connecticut who offers practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, grief, relationship strain, or life changes. She writes in plain terms and listens without judgment.
Lisa draws on ten years of clinical experience to help people find clearer ways forward. Sessions often focus on small, useful strategies - for example pacing self-care, solving a pressing communication problem, or managing strong emotions day to day.
Background and approach
She uses straightforward tools from cognitive approaches, skills-based work, and mindfulness to build coping skills clients can try between meetings. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from Emory University and a Master of Social Work from Bryn Mawr. She has worked in individual counseling with adults and adolescents, parent guidance, family work, and group settings.
That range informs how she adapts support to each persons situation. In sessions Lisa takes a collaborative stance. She asks about goals and priorities, offers options, and adjusts the plan based on what helps.
Many people come for stress, burnout, or parenting strain and leave with clearer routines, calmer responses, and better communication tools. Practical matters are part of the work. Lisa offers sessions by video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules.
She encourages small steps and realistic goals so progress feels manageable rather than overwhelming.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered work focuses on the persons priorities and supports them in choosing what to try next. It emphasizes listening, collaboration, and adjusting pace and focus based on what the person says is most important. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches simple strategies to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and everyday stress by offering practical tools to try between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with relationship strain, strong reactivity, and coping under pressure.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the initial work. The therapist will discuss goals, try out techniques, and refine the plan together. This makes it easier to pick methods that fit a persons lifestyle, preferences, and specific challenges rather than committing to a single path from the start.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging, which offer flexibility for different days and needs. Video is good for a full conversation and visual cues, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text are useful for quick check-ins or shorter coaching-style exchanges. These options help people fit meaningful therapeutic work into busy schedules and varied routines.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Relationship issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Connecticut
- Languages
- English