About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Vaughn is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, ADHD, and relationship or family difficulties.
Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, and she aims to make conversations feel calm and clear. She blends several common therapy approaches to match each person’s needs. That can include strategies to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, ways to strengthen emotional connection, and skills for managing intense feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions often combine problem-solving with emotional processing so people leave with concrete steps to try. Dr. Vaughn often helps people untangle family patterns that contribute to current struggles.
She listens for repeating dynamics and then helps clients see alternatives. That can be useful for concerns like communication problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and life changes such as divorce or grief. Her work also addresses practical life needs: sleep and eating problems, career stress, parenting strain, and finding meaning or purpose.
She brings experience supporting people through hospice and end-of-life issues as well as pregnancy and childbirth transitions. Sessions are offered in English and take place with California-based licensure. Formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Fees vary by location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How online therapy uses evidence-based approaches
Dr. Vaughn commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy in online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and it guides them to act on values that matter. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at early relationship patterns that shape how people connect now and helps build clearer, safer ways of relating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about current problems, goals, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust them over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for fuller conversations and skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be a quick check-in, and text messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while using therapeutic tools that are effective for stress, ADHD-related challenges, relationship patterns, and mood concerns.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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