About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Vaughn is a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 27 years of experience. She offers a calm, direct presence for people feeling overwhelmed by relationships, grief, mood struggles, or life transitions.
Her manner is warm and nonjudgmental and she combines practical tools with close listening. Dr. Vaughn draws on several evidence-informed approaches to tailor sessions to each person.
She uses cognitive and behavioral strategies to address anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns.
How Lisa works
She also brings attachment-focused ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and communication problems. Her practice includes work around trauma and abuse, addictions, anger, compassion fatigue, bipolar disorder, and ADHD. She also supports people coping with divorce and separation, pregnancy and childbirth challenges, end-of-life situations, and career or life-purpose questions.
Issues like guilt, shame, forgiveness, isolation, and intimacy are commonly discussed in sessions. Sessions blend acceptance and commitment ideas with client-centered listening and skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotion regulation is needed. Treatment plans are adjusted to fit a person’s goals, pace, and values.
The aim is to build daily coping skills, clearer communication, and steadier mood over time. Dr. Vaughn practices in California and conducts therapy in English.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to connect and continue care.
Lisa lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
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.
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 27 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify their values and take small, meaningful steps toward them while learning to live with difficult thoughts and emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to reduce anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current communication and trust, which can help with intimacy issues and repeated conflict.Deciding which approach fits best is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose methods and adjust them as progress is made, so the plan stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video is useful when face-to-face interaction matters, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can suit quick check-ins or times when shorter exchanges fit a busy day. These options make it easier to work on relationships, mood, trauma recovery, and daily coping without adding travel time.
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