About Lisa
Lisa McCarton is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 20 years of practice in Virginia. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, ADHD-related struggles, grief, and major life changes. She speaks English and Spanish and aims to make sessions straightforward and practical.
Her work is focused on clear goals and hands-on strategies. Lisa blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current reactions. Lisa began clinical work after completing a Master of Social Work at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2000. Early in her career she provided therapy and case management in a residential setting for children who had experienced abuse.
That experience shaped her interest in trauma, family dynamics, and parenting stress. In sessions she keeps the work practical. People can expect strategies they can try between meetings, plus space to talk through the emotional parts of change.
She focuses on problem-solving, building coping skills, and strengthening relationships that matter to each person. Her background includes work with mood disorders, trauma and abuse, parenting and family problems, impulsivity and attention challenges, and issues related to adoption and attachment. Lisa aims to meet people where they are and help them move toward clearer, more manageable days.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and close connections. It helps people understand patterns in relationships and reduce repeating behaviors that cause pain. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It’s practical for anxiety, low mood, and attention-related coping skills. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and daily life to choose or combine methods. This collaborative process means approaches can shift as needs change. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls allow for face-to-face conversation when visual cues help the work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share updates between sessions or use brief support when that format fits better. These options give flexibility and multiple ways to keep progress moving forward.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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