About Lisa
Lisa Rich is a licensed professional counselor with 26 years of experience working in a range of clinical settings. She practices in West Virginia and has spent her career helping people manage depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, and grief. Lisa listens carefully and builds a respectful working relationship with each person she sees.
She draws on several therapeutic approaches and adapts them to fit the needs of the person in front of her.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on building practical coping skills, managing strong emotions, and reducing symptoms that get in the way of daily life. Lisa keeps a gentle style but will offer challenge when it helps move things forward. Her background includes independent practice, inpatient hospitalization, in-home counseling, agency work, residential settings, and crisis care.
That variety shaped a flexible, problem-focused way of working that aims to meet people where they are. She uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy alongside client-centered and motivational methods. Common concerns she addresses include stress, mood disorders such as bipolar and depression, panic, addiction, attachment and relationship struggles, parenting challenges, and life transitions.
Lisa also helps people dealing with trauma, post-traumatic stress, and grief. In sessions she concentrates on practical tools and habits you can use between meetings. The goal is to help people develop coping strategies, clearer perspectives, and more reliable day-to-day functioning.
She will collaborate with clients to choose approaches that fit their goals and preferences.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and building a strong working relationship. The focus is on understanding your experience and responding in a way that helps you feel heard and respected. It suits people who want a collaborative, empathic space to talk through difficult feelings.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking patterns and actions, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and panic symptoms. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, adds practical skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling relationship conflicts.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa will work with clients to pick methods that match their goals and preferences, and she adapts the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps ensure therapy stays useful and focused on real-life changes.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and longer therapy work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t preferred. Live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or times when writing out thoughts feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- West Virginia
- Languages
- English