About Lisa
Lisa Shifflett is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee with 14 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical help for common struggles like stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Lisa aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She works to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and supported. Clients can expect conversations that are tailored to their situation. She adapts the tone and pace so sessions meet each person's needs.
How Lisa works
Sessions cover motivation, self-esteem, confidence, coping with life changes, and recovery from abuse or trauma. Lisa also addresses relationship and family concerns from an individual perspective, including communication problems, commitment issues, and blended family stress. She helps with parenting strain, caregiver burnout, and the emotional fallout from divorce or separation.
Practical tools for sleep, eating issues, and anger are part of her work. When addiction, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, or disruptive mood concerns come up, Lisa focuses on clear, step-by-step plans. Her approach blends solution-focused strategies with cognitive techniques to change habits and thoughts.
She uses trauma-focused methods when past events continue to cause distress. People looking for an approachable counselor will find a collaborative style. Lisa emphasizes small, achievable goals and builds on what already works.
The aim is steady progress toward more stability and a stronger sense of control.
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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.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting relationship. In practice this means sessions start with what matters most to the person and move at their pace to find realistic next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors feed problems; it breaks patterns into small exercises that change thinking and actions over time. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on reducing the lingering impact of past harm through structured techniques and careful pacing to help people feel safer in daily life.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Lisa works with each person to identify goals and preferences and then recommends methods that match those aims. The plan can be adjusted as sessions progress so the approach stays useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into a break at work. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused updates when typing feels best.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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