About Lisa
Lisa Wyatt helps people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or worn out by difficult life situations. She focuses on practical steps you can try between sessions. Lisa is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, practicing in California with 19 years of experience.
She often supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship struggles. She also addresses intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, and the emotional fallout from trauma and abuse.
How Lisa works
Lisa works with people facing career stress, compassion fatigue, and the challenges of major life changes. Her approach centers on listening first and following the client’s lead. Lisa uses attachment-based ideas to understand how early relationships affect current patterns.
She draws on client-centered methods to make sessions focused on each person’s priorities. She combines cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thought patterns, and mindfulness practices to build present-moment coping skills. Motivational Interviewing helps when someone is unsure or ambivalent about making changes.
Lisa also pays attention to specific themes like abandonment, attachment struggles, codependency, blended family issues, and family of origin concerns. She works with people exploring kink or alternative sexual cultures and with those coping with chronic pain, illness, or disability. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client’s needs.
Lisa lists 8 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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 19 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Online support options
How Lisa’s approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connection patterns and emotional responses. Online work can help identify recurring patterns in relationships and build new ways of relating that feel safer and more balanced.Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead so sessions address what matters most to the person. This approach suits talk-based formats like video or phone sessions where the therapist reflects and helps people clarify their goals.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps spot thought patterns that lead to upsetting feelings and unhelpful behaviors. In online sessions she can teach simple CBT strategies and short exercises to practice between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences and adjust over time if something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and reading nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief reflections, quick support during the week, or people who prefer writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the therapeutic approaches described above.
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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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