About Lisa
Lisa Spears is a Licensed Professional Counselor practicing in Georgia with 18 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and major life changes. Her approach is straightforward and warm, aimed at creating a dependable space for people to talk and make decisions.
She meets each person where they are and shapes sessions around practical steps. Lisa uses a mix of client-centered work and cognitive tools to help people change unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy and the Gottman Method when relationship skills are needed. Sessions often include clear goal-setting, problem-solving, and simple skills to manage mood and worry. She helps people untangle family tensions, cope with grief, and address concerns around parenting, adoption, or blended family dynamics.
Lisa also supports people facing addictions, bipolar mood concerns, body image and eating issues, and career stress. Her style is collaborative and direct. Conversations focus on what the person wants to change next and what small steps will move them forward.
She uses narrative techniques when it helps people make sense of their story and find new choices. Over time Lisa works to build confidence and practical routines that reduce overwhelm. She encourages clients to try new ways of relating and coping, and to notice what works.
The aim is clearer thinking, steadier emotion, and better day-to-day functioning.
How Lisa’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening closely and following the person's lead, helping people feel heard and seen before working toward change. This approach is useful for emotional concerns like grief, low self-esteem, or life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which helps with anxiety, depression, and coping strategies. The Gottman Method offers concrete tools for improving communication, managing conflict, and strengthening relationship habits when partners want to improve how they relate.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their goals and comfort level. She adjusts techniques over time, combining listening, skill-building, and relationship work so the plan fits the person's situation and preferences.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into real life. Video calls let people practice new communication skills face-to-face. Phone sessions work well for shorter check-ins or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can be useful for brief updates, coaching-style support, or when someone prefers writing. These options offer flexibility for different schedules and needs while keeping the focus on usable tools and steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English