About Lisa
Lisa Rich is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 26 years of experience. She has worked in independent practice, inpatient hospitalization, in-home counseling, residential programs, agencies, and crisis settings. Lisa focuses on building a strong working relationship and listens carefully to understand each person's situation.
She helps people facing depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, addictions, grief, and family conflict. Lisa also supports those dealing with anger, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and major life transitions.
How Lisa works
Her practice includes attention to attachment concerns, abandonment, adoption and foster care questions, and first responder issues. Lisa uses a mix of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on client-centered work that centers the person's experience, cognitive behavioral methods for practical skills, dialectical behavior tools for emotional regulation, mindfulness for grounding, and motivational interviewing to build change.
She favors a gentle, respectful style and will offer challenge when it helps progress. Sessions focus on learning coping skills and tools people can use every day. Conversations are straightforward and goal-oriented when that fits, or more exploratory when someone needs to process painful events.
The aim is to help people move toward a life they value and feel more capable in daily life. Lisa practices in West Virginia and works in English. She brings long experience from varied clinical settings and adapts her approach to match what each person needs.
Lisa lists 7 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
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 26 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | West Virginia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and priorities. It involves listening carefully, reflecting feelings, and shaping sessions around what matters most to the individual. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance, a stronger sense of self, or clearer personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, targets unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. Sessions involve learning concrete skills and practicing them between meetings to reduce anxiety, depression, panic, and mood symptoms. CBT is practical and pairs well with online formats for homework and skill checks.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. It helps when impulses, intense emotions, or relationship conflicts interfere with daily life, and can be used alongside other strategies in sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will try methods that fit and adjust them as progress and needs change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skills practice. Phone sessions can fit a short break or low-bandwidth situations. Chat or messaging is useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or people who prefer typing. These options aim to make scheduling easier and to match the way someone wants to engage with therapy.
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