About Lisa
Lisa May is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma, and relationship struggles. She practices in Tennessee and brings 18 years of clinical experience to sessions. Her style is down-to-earth and straightforward, with an emphasis on practical steps and steady support.
She uses a mix of approaches that match a person's needs. That can include talking through patterns with client-centered work, using cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts, and mindfulness practices to ease tension.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be collaborative and focused on real-life change. Lisa draws on a long history in behavioral health that started in social work in 1996 and moved into counseling work in 2002. That background informs how she approaches issues like addiction, trauma, and coping with life changes.
She combines experience with an openness to what each person brings to the room. People come for help with parenting strain, blended-family concerns, abandonment, caregiving stress, and major life transitions. She also supports those dealing with chronic illness, loss, codependency, and communication problems.
Treatment plans are tailored to the individual rather than a one-size-fits-all model. Her practice mixes practical skills with deeper reflection. Lisa focuses on building coping tools, improving communication, and finding ways to move forward after loss or crisis.
She aims to be a steady guide while clients make meaningful changes.
How Lisa Uses Practical Approaches Online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what they say, and helps them clarify values and goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete exercises to change unhelpful patterns and manage symptoms like anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Lisa will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. She adjusts the balance of listening, skills training, and reflection as progress is made so therapy feels collaborative and practical.
Online therapy offers several ways to connect: video calls for more face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when calls fit a schedule better, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum, fit sessions into busy lives, and choose the format that best suits the task at hand.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English