About Lisa
Lisa Levin is a clinical social worker with twenty years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, low self-esteem, and depression. She speaks plainly with clients and focuses on reducing suffering so they can live with more ease. Lisa practices from Indiana and offers online formats to fit busy lives.
Her style is practical and flexible. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance and commitment ideas, attachment-focused work, and skills-based methods to help people change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative - Lisa listens, then suggests steps clients can try between meetings. She treats many forms of trauma and addiction, including experiences that may not look traumatic to others but still cause pain over time.
Lisa also supports people dealing with relationship struggles, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness, grief tied to cancer, and the long-term effects of discrimination and microaggressions. Clients can expect straightforward talk, concrete coping skills, and gentle attention to emotions and values. Lisa adapts strategies when something isn’t helping, and she is open to using a range of approaches to meet someone’s needs.
Lisa holds a master’s-level clinical social work credential - Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) - and brings two decades of practice experience to sessions. She aims to help people find relief from overwhelming feelings and build habits that support a steadier life.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then identify what matters most and take small actions toward those values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and situations where avoidance keeps life narrowed. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, stress, and mood concerns. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape expectations and reactions in current relationships, and it helps people shift repetitive patterns in close relationships and build more supported ways of relating.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted if something isn’t working and clients are encouraged to try concrete techniques between sessions.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth sessions where visual cues matter. Phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow quick touchpoints, homework review, or brief support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied lifestyles while keeping focus on the work that matters.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- 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)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Indiana
- Languages
- English