About Lisa
Lisa Carrillo is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with sixteen years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship strain. She also supports those navigating parenting challenges, grief, intimacy concerns, mood disorders, and life transitions.
Lisa works in a straightforward way. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and builds on existing strengths. Sessions aim to identify patterns that keep problems active and try small, practical changes that make daily life easier.
How Lisa works
Her approach blends techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, psychodynamic work, and solution-focused methods. That mix allows her to address unhelpful thoughts and habits, understand the history behind recurring problems, and set concrete goals for change. Sessions often combine talking about recent struggles with short exercises to test new ways of coping.
Over sixteen years she has worked with people facing a wide range of concerns, including trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, seasonal affective disorder, and issues around identity and intimacy. She also helps with specific challenges such as abandonment, codependency, infidelity, and financial stress. Lisa offers care by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Conversations focus on what matters most to the client and on practical steps that fit daily life. She encourages small, achievable goals and regular review of progress.
Lisa lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Lisa works with
The areas below are the ones Lisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Lisa combines cognitive behavioral techniques and psychodynamic exploration to help clients make changes and understand recurring patterns. Cognitive behavioral work looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and uses simple exercises to try new responses, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood issues. Psychodynamic work pays attention to relationships and past experiences that shape how someone reacts today, which can be useful for recurring relationship struggles or long-term patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lisa will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and day-to-day constraints. That means testing techniques, checking progress, and adjusting the focus as needed so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for a face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options let people fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules, shorten travel time, and choose a communication style that feels most comfortable.
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