About Lisa
Lisa Parise is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker who brings 15 years of experience to her practice in Virginia. She offers a calm, straightforward presence for people facing hard moments. Lisa listens carefully and helps people make practical changes that fit their daily lives.
She holds a Master of Arts in Social Work from Fordham University and maintains LICSW and LCSW credentials. Her background includes work with trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, and grief.
Background and approach
Lisa also supports people dealing with relationship strain, caregiver stress, and questions about identity and intimacy. Her approach blends attachment-based ideas with client-centered care and practical skills from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She draws on mindfulness to help people notice thoughts and body sensations without judgment.
Sessions focus on clear steps, skill-building, and steady emotional support. Lisa pays attention to how early relationships shape current patterns. She helps people untangle communication problems, feelings of emptiness, and family of origin issues.
For those coping with substance use, mood disorders, or compassion fatigue, she combines motivation-focused techniques with emotion-regulation tools. People who tend to benefit work well with steady, down-to-earth guidance and concrete strategies. Lisa aims to make therapy feel understandable and doable, not overwhelming.
She invites clients to set goals and try small changes between sessions.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in relationships and how early connections influence current reactions. In online sessions this looks like talking through relationship histories, noticing repeated ways of connecting, and practicing new ways of relating in real time. It can help with intimacy-related issues, abandonment, and family of origin concerns.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a hands-on approach that helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test them with experiments. Online CBT includes setting concrete homework, tracking moods, and using short tools between sessions to shift thinking and behavior. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work and happens together. The therapist will ask about your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust as you learn what helps. This collaborative process means practical techniques are mixed with careful listening to your experience.
Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick reflections, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, Virginia
- Languages
- English