About Lisa
Lisa Connelly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, and relationship and intimacy concerns. She works with issues such as grief, addictions, parenting stress, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, and self-esteem. Her practice also addresses mood conditions like bipolar disorder, ADHD, and major life transitions.
Lisa uses a straightforward, collaborative style in sessions. She listens first, then helps clients set clear goals together.
Background and approach
Practical coping skills and real-life strategies are woven into conversations so clients can try changes between meetings. Her background includes 15 years of clinical experience across a variety of care settings. That experience informs an adaptable approach for different kinds of problems and personality styles.
Lisa draws on cognitive and behavior-focused tools to help people change unhelpful thoughts and habits. Attachment-focused work and acceptance-based ideas are also part of her toolkit. These approaches help with close relationship patterns, abandonment concerns, and building emotional awareness.
Dialectical behavior skills are used when stronger emotion regulation and distress tolerance are needed. Sessions are practical and paced to each person. Lisa aims to help clients notice small shifts, try new responses, and track what works.
Her style is direct but warm, with an emphasis on building trust and actionable steps toward better day-to-day functioning.
How Lisa’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting stuck in them and focuses on taking values-driven action. This can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions where getting unstuck matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical steps to change patterns that maintain distress. It is often used for anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep or eating difficulties.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. That might mean mixing ACT, CBT, attachment-focused work, or skills from dialectical behavior therapy to match what a person needs in the moment.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and working through emotions. Phone sessions can be easier when someone needs lower bandwidth or a hands-free option. Live chat and text sessions fit brief check-ins, skill reminders, or mid-week support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules and make it easier to keep consistent progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
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
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English