About Lisa
Lisa May is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Tennessee with 18 years of counseling experience. She is down-to-earth and takes each person's concerns seriously. Lisa focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, low self-esteem, depression, and addictions.
She also works with relationship and family issues, parenting challenges, anger, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, aging concerns, blended family issues, cancer-related stress, caregiver strain, and codependency.
How Lisa works
Lisa uses several therapeutic approaches to match what each person needs. Her work draws on client-centered methods to build understanding, cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and shift unhelpful thoughts, Jungian ideas for exploring personal meaning, mindfulness to improve day-to-day coping, and solution-focused strategies to set small, practical goals.
Her background includes earlier work in social services beginning in 1996 and independent practice experience in Kentucky before relocating to Tennessee. That mix of social work roots and long-term counseling practice shapes a practical, person-focused style. In sessions she aims to be approachable and steady.
People can expect clear, straightforward conversation, collaborative goal-setting, and concrete tools to use between meetings. Lisa sees helping someone find a brighter, more manageable path as the main part of her role.
Lisa lists 6 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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 18 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Lisa often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building a trusting, nonjudgmental relationship. This approach helps when someone needs a steady space to talk through feelings and decisions.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT is practical for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it offers clear strategies and small homework steps.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lisa will discuss goals, try methods that fit the client's needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. The process is collaborative and paced to what feels useful for the person.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people have a face-to-face experience without travel. Phone sessions are simpler when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief updates, short check-ins, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between sessions.
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