About Lisa
Lisa Dorfman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 38 years of experience. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, eating concerns, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Her work also covers trauma, grief, parenting strains, career issues, and relationship challenges.
She uses practical, straightforward methods that aim to build motivation and confidence. Sessions often include client-centered conversation alongside cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thoughts and habits.
How Lisa works
Mindfulness skills and tools from dialectical behavior therapy help with emotional regulation and coping in hard moments. For people dealing with trauma or lingering distress after painful events, she can incorporate eye movement desensitization and reprocessing as one option to reduce the intensity of memories.
Her background also includes support for eating and body image concerns, caregiver stress, first responder issues, postpartum depression, and grief related to end-of-life care. Lisa frames therapy as a collaborative process. She helps clients identify strengths and practical next steps.
Expect clear goals, focused skill-building, and attention to the life issues that matter most to each person. Her work emphasizes steady progress rather than quick fixes. She supports people who want to improve coping, repair relationships, rebuild self-worth, or manage workplace and life transitions.
Sessions are aimed at lasting changes that fit a person’s routines and responsibilities.
Lisa lists 10 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
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 38 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches that work well online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It emphasizes listening, understanding, and helping clients set their own goals. This approach helps people feel heard and guides practical next steps for everyday problems.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches ways to identify unhelpful thinking and replace it with more useful habits. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related issues.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It includes techniques for distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and effective communication. These skills can help with anger, overwhelm, and repeated crises.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss options and collaborate with each person to choose methods that match goals and preferences. Sessions often mix approaches so they fit what is most helpful for the client.
Online therapy makes these methods accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that helps. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing support, or when writing out thoughts helps more than speaking. These flexible formats make it easier to use therapeutic skills in day-to-day life.
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