About Lisa
Lisa Travis-Johnson is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Missouri. She focuses on helping people who feel stuck by offering steady, respectful support. Her style is warm, interactive, and aimed at helping clients feel heard.
With nine years of experience, she has worked with a wide range of concerns. These include addictions, trauma and abuse, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and ADHD. She also supports people facing relationship strain, grief, body image worries, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Her sessions draw on practical, evidence-based techniques alongside a person-centered stance. That means sessions stay focused on what matters to the client while using specific tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She pays attention to gender-sensitive needs and attachment or abandonment concerns when they come up.
She brings prior experience in corrections to her clinical work, which shapes how she listens and responds to complex life histories. She aims to create an open atmosphere so thoughts and feelings can be shared without judgment. Clients are invited to bring curiosity and willingness to try new ways of coping.
Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person. Lisa helps people set goals and practices skills between sessions. Her intent is to support and empower clients as they take the steps toward a more fulfilling life.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Lisa draws on cognitive behavioral techniques that focus on spotting and shifting unhelpful thought patterns to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms. These methods teach concrete skills for coping with stress and changing behaviors that get in the way of daily life.She also uses person-centered principles that prioritize listening, empathy, and the client’s own goals. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes treatment around their values and pace. When trauma histories are present, she brings trauma-focused strategies that help process painful memories and develop safer, more effective coping skills.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to identify goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust plans as progress is made. That teamwork helps find what works best for you.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat and text let people check in between appointments or fit brief sessions into a busy day. These options give flexibility for different schedules, comfort levels, and communication preferences.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English