About Lisa
Lisa Draper is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in Michigan. She draws on seven years of clinical practice and prior service in the U.S. Army and emergency response roles.
She speaks English and works with adults who face stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, trauma, grief, ADHD, and related challenges. She frames therapy as a joint journey. Sessions focus on practical steps people can use between meetings.
Lisa aims to listen first, then help clients set small, achievable goals that fit their daily life and values.
Background and approach
Her approach blends acceptance and commitment strategies with cognitive techniques and mindfulness skills. She also uses client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in each person's experience. For clients with traumatic histories she may draw on EMDR as part of an overall plan.
Lisa’s background includes military service, frontline emergency work, and corrections experience. Those roles shaped her calm, straightforward style and her attention to safety and pacing during difficult topics. She often helps people who feel stuck because of overlapping problems like chronic pain, caregiver stress, or co-occurring substance use.
Sessions can include skills practice for sleep, anger, or concentration, plus problem-solving for communication and life changes. Many clients work on improving self-esteem, managing compulsive behaviors, or reducing overwhelm. Her goal is to help people make steady, practical progress at a pace they can manage.
Practical approaches for online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters most to them and then take small steps toward those values. It emphasizes noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, insomnia, ADHD-related struggles with organization, and mood management.
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. These skills support stress reduction, sleep, and staying present during difficult moments.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then tailor methods from ACT, CBT, mindfulness, or EMDR when appropriate. The plan can change as progress is made to find the best fit.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules. Video is useful for a full session feel, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing thought organization and reminders. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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- ADHD
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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