About Lisa
Lisa Young is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience helping people through stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, and trauma-related concerns. She brings a warm, down-to-earth style to sessions and aims to help clients find practical ways to feel better day to day. She also supports people dealing with intimacy issues, anger, low self-esteem, and feelings of isolation.
Her approach mixes straightforward therapy, education, and coaching.
Background and approach
She often uses cognitive behavioral techniques alongside trauma-focused work and other methods to match what a person needs in the moment. Sessions focus on concrete skills, clearer thinking, and realistic goal-setting. Lisa identifies as a liberal feminist and is married with two young children.
She also shares that she received a late ADHD diagnosis herself, which informs her understanding of attention challenges and the frustrations people face around diagnosis and daily functioning. In practice she helps clients untangle guilt and shame, cope with life changes, and navigate end-of-life concerns when needed.
She aims to meet people where they are and adjust support as needs shift over time. People can expect a conversational, pragmatic tone in sessions. Lisa balances empathy with structure, offering tools for symptom relief and steps for longer term change.
She invites clients to set goals and to use therapy as a space for problem solving and accountability.
How Lisa’s Approaches Work Online
Lisa commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns; CBT focuses on practical exercises and clear goals and can help with anxiety, depression, and daily functioning. She also offers EMDR, which involves guided processing techniques to reduce the emotional impact of traumatic memories and related symptoms. Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses to support people who are ambivalent about change by helping them find their own reasons and small steps forward.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, past experiences, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try first. Plans can be adjusted as work progresses so the approach stays aligned with what the client finds helpful.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people work face to face from wherever they are, phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in, and chat or messaging works well for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to keep momentum between meetings.
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- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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