About Lisa
Lisa Lucius is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in California with ten years of clinical experience. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, stress, grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, addiction concerns, and ADHD. Her manner is steady and nonjudgmental, and she aims to make sessions feel practical and doable for busy lives.
Lisa uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, dialectical behavior skills to manage intense emotions, and motivational interviewing to build readiness for change.
Background and approach
Mindfulness practices and client-centered listening are woven into sessions to help people feel heard and grounded. Her background includes work with people across a range of mental health needs, from personal growth goals to moderate and more severe mental illness. She emphasizes clear communication and teaches tools that clients can try between meetings.
Therapy can include learning assertive communication and gentle inner-child work when that seems helpful. Sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Lisa describes her role as collaborative: she helps people identify practical next steps, builds skills for day-to-day coping, and adjusts methods as progress and goals evolve.
Clients often begin by describing the most urgent problem. From there she and the client set short-term goals and decide which techniques to use. Her approach focuses on useful skills, steady support, and adapting strategies to real-life demands.
Approaches that fit your life and schedule
Client-centered therapy puts the person's experience first and focuses on understanding feelings and goals. It is useful when someone wants a supportive space to talk through stress, relationship issues, or life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps people notice thoughts that feed anxiety or low mood and practice different responses. It is practical for worries, low energy, and patterns that keep problems going.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. Short lessons in emotion regulation and distress tolerance can help when feelings feel overwhelming.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals, needs, and preferences. That choice can change over time as skills build and priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for a conversation that feels close to in-person. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is low. Live chat and messaging let someone check in quickly or keep a running thread of ideas between sessions. These options make it easier to use therapy consistently while balancing family, school, or work commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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