About Lisa
Lisa Warden is a licensed social worker with 16 years of practice. She brings a down-to-earth manner and a focus on practical change. Her background includes early work as a massage therapist, which shaped her awareness of the mind-body connection and how physical awareness can support healing.
She has spent much of her career helping people recover from trauma and addictions. She also supports those dealing with personality-related challenges and mood ups and downs.
Background and approach
Lisa pays attention to how symptoms keep people stuck and works to move them toward more balanced day-to-day living. Her style is warm and flexible. She often uses humor and meets people where they are.
Sessions focus on small, doable steps and building skills that make daily life feel more manageable. Lisa blends conversational listening with practical tools. She draws on approaches like client-centered work, cognitive techniques, DBT skills, and EMDR when appropriate.
The goal is to relieve distress and help people reclaim energy for the things they value. People who come to her typically want clear tools, emotional understanding, and an accepting space to try things out. She supports work on anxiety, grief, substance concerns, self-esteem, relationship and intimacy questions, ADHD, caregiving stress, chronic illness and other life changes.
Lisa practices in Michigan and offers several online formats to fit different needs. She aims to create a steady, encouraging space where clients can learn new ways to cope and begin to enjoy life more fully.
How specific approaches work online
Client-centered work focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a supportive relationship. Online this means the therapist listens carefully and reflects back what matters most to the client so goals feel personal and clear.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going. In video or phone sessions, CBT uses simple exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and acting, which helps with anxiety, depression, and stress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Online DBT often includes short skills coaching, practice during the week, and focused strategies for coping with crisis moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and then try methods that fit. That collaborative process can shift over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are good for a fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief updates, skill practice, or ongoing coaching between longer sessions. These options help therapy fit around work, caregiving, and other daily demands.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Utah, Maine, North Dakota
- Languages
- English