About Lisa
Lisa Tolliver is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 25 years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth therapy that helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Lisa speaks plainly and aims to make sessions easy to follow for worried parents and busy adults.
She uses emotionally-focused methods to help people name and make sense of strong feelings. She also draws on narrative and psychodynamic ideas to look at patterns that repeat across relationships and life choices.
Background and approach
Sessions tend to be conversational and aimed at small, useful changes that reduce daily overwhelm. Lisa has a history of working with people who identify as LGBT and those carrying grief or compassion fatigue from caregiving or demanding jobs. She also supports clients concerned about intimacy, career decisions, life purpose, and midlife transitions.
Her approach covers both immediate coping skills and longer-term personal insight. Her practice includes attention to neurodiversity and related concerns such as Autism and Asperger Syndrome. She is experienced with first responder and veteran issues, and with people navigating family of origin problems and avoidant personality patterns.
She brings patience when clients feel misunderstood or out of place. Clients can expect straightforward talk, practical suggestions, and gentle exploration of history and meaning. Lisa combines short-term strategies with deeper work when helpful, helping people build routines and ways of thinking that fit their real life.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Lisa commonly uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify, name, and shift painful emotions. That approach is useful when strong feelings get in the way of daily life or close relationships. She also draws on Narrative Therapy to help clients retell their stories and find new ways to act when old narratives no longer fit.Finding the right method is part of the work. Lisa collaborates with each client to choose approaches that match their goals, symptoms, and personal preferences. She will suggest short-term strategies and longer-term options and will adjust the plan as progress or needs change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio-only check-in is preferred. Live chat or messaging can fit very brief check-ins, daily tracking, or people who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied lifestyles.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Depression
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Kentucky
- Languages
- English
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