About Lisa
Lisa Adler is a licensed professional counselor with 26 years of experience in South Dakota. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and ADHD. Her approach is straightforward and respectful.
She listens, offers clear feedback, and helps people find workable steps forward. She believes people know their story best and brings out strengths already present. Sessions emphasize realistic goals and small changes that add up over time.
Background and approach
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques chosen to match each person’s needs and goals. Clients can expect direct, honest assessment without judgment or criticism. Lisa frames progress as a team effort and helps people weigh options and try new strategies.
She also supports those coping with addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, and life transitions. Over her career she has worked with issues that often co-occur, such as chronic pain, caregiver stress, codependency, and sleep or eating problems. That breadth helps her see patterns and offer practical interventions that fit everyday life.
Communication is prompt but balanced with other responsibilities; messages are checked several times per day. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduling step starts the process.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical changes. One common approach she uses emphasizes structured problem-solving and skill-building to reduce anxiety and manage stress; it teaches specific steps to break problems into manageable parts and try new behaviors. Another approach focuses on processing grief and loss by helping people name feelings, track patterns, and create routines that restore energy and purpose. These approaches are useful for mood, coping with life changes, and many daily challenges.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will review your goals and preferences and suggest methods to try. Clients and the therapist check what’s helping and adjust direction so the plan fits real life and priorities.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let sessions feel face-to-face when that matters. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style exchanges, or ongoing problem-solving between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota
- Languages
- English
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