About Lisa
Lisa Cruz meets people where they are and helps them take the next step. She listens first, then works with each person to set clear, manageable goals. Lisa is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Texas and she focuses on practical skills that can be used right away.
She uses straightforward talk and real tools. Many people come for help with anxiety, depression, mood swings, or overwhelming stress. She also supports those facing trauma and abuse, grief, addiction struggles, or trouble with anger and relationships.
Background and approach
Lisa blends several approaches so sessions fit the person, not a single method. She draws on client-centered conversation to understand what matters most to the client. She adds cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thinking and teaches coping skills to change patterns.
Mindfulness practices and solution-focused steps are included where they help people feel steadier and make progress. Motivational interviewing is used when someone is ready to change habits or take steps toward recovery. The goal is steady, doable progress rather than quick fixes.
Her background includes counseling college students and working at a community mental health center. With three years of experience, Lisa helps people prepare for life changes, manage career stresses, and address feelings of emptiness, guilt, or isolation. She encourages practical strategies that can fit into everyday routines.
Online approaches that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding what matters most to the individual and building sessions around their priorities; it helps when someone needs a respectful, listening space to sort feelings and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to shift unhelpful thinking and reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. Mindfulness therapy adds simple attention and breathing practices to help manage stress and stay present during difficult moments.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then try methods that seem most helpful. Adjustments are made as needed so the plan stays practical and aligned with the client's everyday life.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when bandwidth allows, phone sessions can be easier when a shorter check-in is needed, live chat is useful for quick reflections during the day, and messaging supports ongoing, written check-ins between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work, school, and family routines while making it easier to use the approaches described above.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Lisa commonly help with?
What is her therapy style like?
How much experience does she have?
Where is she licensed and based?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available?
How does cost and payment work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Paranoia
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Social anxiety and phobia
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English