About Lisa
Lisa Patton is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Alabama with seven years of clinical experience. She centers sessions on the person in front of her and keeps conversation straightforward. Lisa aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is worried or unsure.
She commonly helps people facing stress, anxiety, and depression. She also supports those coping with grief, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and sleep disruption. Lisa works with a wide range of mood and trauma-related concerns, including panic, PTSD, bipolar mood issues, and postpartum depression.
Background and approach
Her approach is grounded in client-centered work and cognitive behavioral techniques. In session she listens first, then offers practical ways to change thinking and behavior when those patterns get in the way. Sessions tend to focus on small, realistic steps people can try between meetings.
Lisa also addresses issues like communication problems, divorce and separation, attachment questions related to adoption and foster care, and the emotional aftermath of sexual assault. She pays attention to shame, guilt, isolation, and compassion fatigue so these feelings do not get ignored. People who choose Lisa can expect a calm, direct style and clear suggestions for coping.
She explains options and helps people pick strategies that match their daily life. The goal is steady progress rather than sudden fixes.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and self-direction. The therapist listens deeply, reflects what she hears, and helps the person identify their own goals and strengths. This approach can help with grief, relationship stress, isolation, and building self-esteem.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical experiments. It offers tools for anxiety, panic, mood problems, obsessive thoughts, and behaviors that interfere with daily life. Sessions often include specific skills and short homework tasks to try between meetings.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest a path that mixes client-centered listening with CBT strategies when useful. This is a collaborative process and plans can change as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can fit into busy days and help people get support between scheduled sessions. These formats give flexibility so therapy can fit around work, caregiving, or other commitments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English