About Lisa
Lisa Hilton is a licensed social worker with 20 years of clinical experience in Michigan. She uses a client-centered approach that keeps the person's needs and goals at the center of each session. Lisa aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck.
She draws on attachment-based ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships and attachment wounds that affect trust and intimacy.
How Lisa works
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors that reduce anxiety and depression. Dialectical behavior skills are offered for managing intense emotions and improving day-to-day coping. Common concerns she addresses include stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, burnout, compassion fatigue, and relationship and intimacy-related issues.
Lisa also works with parenting strain, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career transitions, and complex medical or caregiving stressors. She brings practical strategies alongside reflective conversation to help people move forward. Sessions combine listening, skill teaching, and collaborative planning.
Lisa helps clients set small, achievable goals and checks progress each week. She encourages mindfulness and emotion regulation practices that can be used between sessions. She is licensed as an LMSW, works in English, and accepts international clients for online work.
To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions according to availability.
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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Lisa often draws on attachment-based work to help people notice patterns in relationships and heal from attachment wounds that affect trust and intimacy. This approach focuses on how past and present bonds shape feelings and reactions in close relationships.She also uses client-centered therapy, which means sessions are guided by the person's needs and pace. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people set goals that feel meaningful. Cognitive behavioral therapy is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try practical behavior changes that reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lisa collaborates with each person to figure out which combination of methods fits their situation, goals, and preferences. Treatment plans can shift as needs change, and clients are encouraged to give feedback about what helps.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging options support short check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to maintain consistent contact with a licensed professional.
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