About Lisa
Lisa Levin is a licensed clinical social worker with twenty years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, low self-esteem, depression, and relationship concerns. She approaches each person as an individual and looks for practical ways to reduce suffering. Lisa keeps language plain and sessions focused on useful change.
She uses a mix of approaches to match what a person needs. That can include acceptance and commitment techniques to clarify values and take action, cognitive-behavioral tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and habits, and attachment-focused work to understand how early relationships shape current reactions.
How Lisa works
Dialectical skills are used when emotional regulation and coping are central concerns. Lisa has decades of clinical experience, including work done outside the United States. Her background includes work with trauma and a wide range of addictive behaviors beyond substances, such as relationship and behavioral compulsions.
She emphasizes outcomes that improve daily life, not just insight. She recognizes how discrimination, microaggressions, and social injustice affect mental health. Lisa brings that awareness into sessions and supports people who want to address the impact of racism or discrimination on their sense of self and stress levels.
Sessions may blend talk-based therapy with practical interventions aimed at reducing symptoms and improving functioning. The focus is on what helps a person feel and function better in everyday life. Based in Indiana, Lisa offers care in English and combines long-term experience with a willingness to try approaches that achieve results for the person in front of her.
Lisa lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Indiana |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Lisa uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify what matters to them and take actions that match their values, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. This approach is useful for anxiety, low mood, and getting unstuck from avoidance.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships influence current patterns. That work can help when trust, closeness, or repeating relationship problems cause distress. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is helpful for anxiety, depression, and many stress-related problems.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, needs, and comfort level, and will adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is helpful for face-to-face conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging options let people check in or do shorter exchanges between sessions. These formats make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while still using the same therapeutic methods you would expect in traditional care.
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