About Lisa
Lisa Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of experience. She practices in Virginia and offers practical, down-to-earth help for people facing stress, anxiety, mood shifts, depression, bipolar challenges, and ADHD. She has worked in outpatient practices, residential treatment, hospitals, and schools.
That range gives her a clear sense of how different settings shape everyday challenges. She also teaches graduate social work classes, with a course that focuses on how childhood trauma affects adults.
Background and approach
In sessions she talks through current problems and brings strategies people can try between meetings. She helps with grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, career transitions, anger, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with sexual assault, post-traumatic stress, and other trauma-related concerns.
Her approach is practical and relational. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. Discussions are straightforward and aimed at small, doable changes that fit a person’s life.
Sessions are typically held on weekdays during the day. To begin, a short intake and scheduling conversation will sort out the best times and the right next steps. Lisa works in English and provides online formats that include video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage symptoms and build skills. One common approach focuses on trauma-informed methods that help people process upsetting events and reduce their day-to-day distress; this is often useful for post-traumatic stress and sexual assault recovery. Another approach emphasizes strategies for mood regulation and coping with anxiety and bipolar symptoms, teaching concrete tools to manage strong emotions and routine disruptions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa collaborates with each person to identify which techniques fit their goals, preferences, and life demands, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients help set priorities and decide whether to focus first on symptom management, skill-building, or processing past events.
Online therapy formats offered include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow a more traditional session feel. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a camera is not preferred. Live chat and text messaging provide brief check-ins or ongoing touchpoints between sessions. These options make it easier to fit care into busy schedules and to keep therapy consistent when life gets in the way.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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