About Lisa
Lisa Orr is a licensed clinical social worker with 24 years of experience practicing in Kentucky. She focuses on common and painful concerns like stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and family tensions. Her style is warm and collaborative, and she treats people with respect for their life story and strengths.
Lisa helps people notice the resources they already have and use those strengths to make changes. Sessions are focused and practical.
How Lisa works
She talks through problems, helps set manageable goals, and teaches skills people can try between meetings. Her background includes long experience using cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior ideas, and EMDR for trauma work. She also draws on client-centered and mindfulness approaches to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
This mix lets her shift gears when a different strategy might be more useful. People often come to Lisa for help with relationship strain, attachment and abandonment worries, and life transitions like divorce or midlife crisis. She also supports those coping with chronic illness, caregiver stress, cancer, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress.
Work on communication, control issues, and isolation are common topics. Therapy aims to build clearer coping plans and improve day-to-day functioning. Lisa encourages honest conversation, skill practice, and steady progress at a pace that fits the individual.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to meet varied needs.
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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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- 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 | 24 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches That Guide Online Sessions
Client-centered therapy starts from the person’s own experience and priorities; the therapist listens closely and follows the client’s lead while offering support and reflection. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and practicing specific skills to change them; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and mood challenges.Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. Those skills can help with intense emotions, panic, and relationship struggles. The therapist will discuss which approach or combination might fit best and adjust over time based on the client’s goals and responses. This collaborative process helps find methods that feel useful and doable.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for a more personal feel and real-time interaction, phone sessions work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, live chat and messaging can support brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between meetings.
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