About Lisa
Lisa Travis-Johnson is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri who focuses on helping people facing addiction, trauma, mood struggles, and relationship or identity concerns. She approaches counseling with warmth and empathy. Lisa invites people to bring curiosity and honesty to sessions as they work toward clearer goals and small, practical changes.
With nine years of experience, Lisa draws on techniques that address thinking patterns, personal values, and past hurts. She adapts each session to what a person needs that day, whether that means active problem solving or simply being heard.
How Lisa works
Sessions aim to build confidence, reduce distress, and improve daily coping. Her background includes substantial work in corrections, which shaped her direct and respectful style. That experience informs how she talks about boundaries, safety, and accountability in recovery and relationship concerns.
Lisa pays attention to how past experiences affect current behavior and choices. She works with people dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also helps with intimacy issues, body image, abandonment and attachment wounds, and problems like communication breakdowns or codependency.
LGBT concerns and issues around infidelity and forgiveness are within her focus. Lisa uses a collaborative, interactive method. Sessions are intended to be practical and understandable.
She supports each person in finding steps they can use between appointments to move toward a more satisfying life.
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
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How her therapeutic methods work online
Lisa commonly uses approaches that focus on changing unhelpful thinking and addressing past hurt in a step-by-step way. One approach helps people spot and shift thinking patterns that fuel anxiety, depression, or self-critical thoughts and then practice different responses in daily life. Another approach centers on understanding how past trauma or attachment wounds affect feelings and relationships today, offering ways to process those experiences and build safer ways of relating. Finding the right method is a collaborative process. She works with each person to pick techniques that match their goals, comfort level, and what feels manageable. Together they review progress and try different strategies when needed so therapy stays useful and relevant. Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for deeper conversation and visual cues, phone calls can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging suits shorter check-ins or moments when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.Start online instead of waiting
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