About Lisa
Lisa Young is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and major life changes. She also supports those dealing with ADHD, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, anger, and low self-esteem. Lisa brings 15 years of experience and a straightforward, compassionate approach to sessions.
She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy while staying attentive to trauma. She mixes teaching, coaching, and therapy to match what someone needs that week.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with room for problem solving and real-life planning. Lisa speaks from both professional and personal experience. She is a parent and a person with a late ADHD diagnosis, which informs how she thinks about structure, overwhelm, and shame.
That perspective helps when working through guilt, loneliness, hospice and end-of-life concerns, or post-traumatic stress. Her style is warm and direct. She helps people set small, achievable goals and holds them accountable in a nonjudgmental way.
She also helps with practical coping strategies for day-to-day life and major transitions. Based in Pennsylvania, Lisa offers sessions that blend education and emotional support. She aims to make therapy understandable, useful, and suited to each person’s life and schedule.
Therapeutic Tools Adapted for Online Work
Lisa often draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and build practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, and day-to-day stress. CBT sessions online focus on concrete exercises, thought records, and small behavioral changes that can be practiced between meetings.She also uses EMDR to address trauma and post-traumatic stress; online EMDR adapts the bilateral stimulation and processing work into a remote format and helps people reduce the intensity of traumatic memories. Motivational interviewing is used to clarify values and increase motivation for change, which is helpful for goals like managing ADHD symptoms or shifting habits.
Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Lisa collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level, and she adjusts the plan as things change. That teamwork helps keep therapy practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lifestyles. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging can support frequent, brief check-ins and accountability. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work between appointments.
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English