About Lisa
Lisa Rosario is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience based in New York. She speaks English and Spanish and brings a grounded, practical approach to sessions. Lisa aims to make first steps toward help feel manageable and clear.
She begins by asking a few straightforward questions to understand what brought someone to therapy. Early conversations cover current struggles, symptoms, personal history, and relationships. Lisa invites clients to share their strengths and goals so a realistic plan can be shaped together.
Background and approach
Her work addresses a wide range of concerns, including anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, stress, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family matters, eating concerns, anger, low self-esteem, career stress, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. She also supports people facing abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and other life transitions.
In sessions she uses clear, simple techniques drawn from approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered methods. The focus is on practical steps people can try between meetings and on building small, sustainable changes.
Outside of clinical work she has taught at the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and is pursuing doctoral candidacy. That background informs a reflective, informed style that balances experience with openness to each person’s story.
If someone is unsure where to start, Lisa outlines next steps and discusses options so the person can decide whether the plan feels like a fit.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, values-led steps even when emotions are difficult. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, focuses on identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and then testing simple changes that can improve mood and functioning. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, centers on understanding emotional responses and improving connection in relationships; it can help with intimacy and relationship struggles.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and can adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth, chat may suit short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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