About Lisa
Lisa Lopez is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Arizona. She draws on four years of post-licensure experience to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. Lisa speaks English and uses straightforward, practical approaches to meet everyday needs.
Her work centers on helping people find what matters to them and build small, steady changes toward those goals. She combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with cognitive-behavioral tools and a client-centered stance.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize clear steps, simple coping skills, and slowing down to notice patterns that keep problems repeating. Lisa has a focused background supporting people affected by substance use and by past abuse or assault. She also helps with panic, mood problems, self-esteem, feelings of abandonment, and isolation.
Practical topics such as communication challenges, control issues, divorce and separation, and life-purpose questions are part of her caseload. In sessions she listens first and then offers options that match each person’s situation. She often uses mindfulness exercises to reduce reactivity and motivational interviewing techniques to support change when addiction or substance use is involved.
Her style is collaborative and straightforward. People working with Lisa typically get clear goals and short-term steps to practice between meetings. She supports exploration of values and everyday choices that lead to more steady functioning and greater self-respect.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to clarify their values and take committed steps toward them. In online sessions ACT often uses values exercises and small behavioral experiments to reduce avoidance and increase meaningful action. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical exercises. CBT sessions commonly include homework and simple behavioral techniques that are easy to practice between appointments. Mindfulness Therapy teaches moment-to-moment awareness and calm breathing to reduce reactivity and manage anxiety or panic symptoms. Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk through goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s needs and adjust the plan if something isn’t working. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual connection matters, while phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people keep momentum between meetings and use brief problem-solving in the moment. These options offer flexibility so work on values, coping skills, and relapse prevention can continue on a schedule that works for the client.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English