About Lisa
Lisa Rakusin offers calm, practical support for people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, or life transitions. She meets each person where they are and helps them find clear steps forward. Lisa speaks plainly and focuses on strengths so clients can make real changes they can live with.
Lisa is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, with 11 years of experience in California. She supports people coping with trauma, mood struggles, addiction concerns, and challenges around intimacy and parenting.
How Lisa works
She also helps with career questions, forgiveness work, and issues that come from family of origin patterns. Her approach centers on building supported, trusting connections and on practical strategies people can use between sessions. Lisa uses attachment-informed work to look at how relationships shape feelings and behavior.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help shift unhelpful thoughts and on emotionally-focused methods to deepen understanding of painful interactions. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. Lisa emphasizes small, manageable steps and uses skills practice, reflection, and in-the-moment feedback.
Many people find this mix helps reduce overwhelm while building clearer patterns for relationships and self-care. Her style is straightforward and compassionate. She aims to make therapy feel doable when life feels hard, helping people build resilience and clearer direction for change.
Lisa lists 9 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
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How attachment and skill-based work translate online
Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape emotions and reactions; online sessions use conversation and guided reflection to notice patterns and build safer ways of relating. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people spot and change unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical coping strategies for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-focused work focuses on identifying and processing strong feelings in relationships to improve connection and reduce conflict.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest which approach or combination might help most. Clients and the therapist adjust methods over time based on what is working and what feels comfortable.
Online therapy offers flexibility and options to fit busy lives. Video calls let people work face-to-face from wherever they are, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is a shorter option for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These formats make it possible to fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of care.
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