About Elizabeth
Elizabeth "Lisa" Burdick uses a client-centered approach to guide people through stress, anxiety, addiction, and life changes. She focuses on practical steps and listens for each person's priorities. Lisa brings calm, direct support for parenting concerns, relationship strain, grief, mood issues, and self-esteem struggles.
With two decades of experience, Lisa adapts methods to fit each person’s background and beliefs. She blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness to help people manage thoughts, reactions, and daily routines.
Background and approach
She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools when people want to set realistic goals and make change. Her work often involves helping people with substance use, career and school stress, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and depression. She also offers support around adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, postpartum concerns, and multicultural issues.
Lisa pays attention to how cultural and personal values shape what matters in therapy. Sessions tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented. People can expect to talk through specific challenges, try small behavioral changes, and review what helps between sessions.
Lisa frames progress as steady steps rather than overnight fixes. She practices in North Carolina and holds the Licensed Professional Counselor credential as well as Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor. She offers services in English and is open to working with people from other countries.
If someone prefers flexible formats, she provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Practical approaches for online therapy and change
Client-centered therapy starts by listening and following what matters most to the person. The therapist creates space for the client to set goals and steer sessions, which helps when coping with relationship strain, parenting stress, or life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. It uses simple exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and build new routines, which can help with anxiety, depression, and mood disorders.
Mindfulness-based techniques teach present-moment skills like paced breathing and focused attention. These tools can reduce reactivity and help with stress, anger, and compassion fatigue.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match goals, values, and daily life. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, mixing listening, skill practice, and small action plans.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging is helpful for brief updates or ongoing encouragement. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, Washington, Wisconsin, Virginia, Oregon, Maine, South Carolina
- Languages
- English