About Ryan
Ryan Lisman uses a humanistic, client-centered approach to guide therapy. He is Ryan Lisman, LPCC, and he aims to create a space where people lead the pace and focus of sessions. He values clear listening and treats each concern as unique to the person sitting across from him.
With five years of professional experience he supports people facing stress and anxiety, depression, and grief. He also helps with issues tied to identity and intimacy, including LGBT-related concerns, body image, and alternative sex culture topics such as BDSM and kink.
Background and approach
Addictions, eating concerns, and anger are also within his scope of work. Ryan draws on creative methods as part of his practice, incorporating drama therapy techniques when useful. This gives people options beyond talking alone and can help access feelings or patterns that feel stuck.
He pairs embodied work with more traditional conversation to meet individual preferences. He also addresses relational issues like communication problems, codependency, and divorce or separation, while working with attachment and abandonment themes. Ryan pays attention to co-occurring concerns such as bipolar symptoms, dissociation, and other complex presentations.
Ryan practices in California and brings a compassionate, nonjudgmental stance to sessions. He describes his own experience with long-term therapy as part of why he values collaborative exploration and steady progress with the people he sees.
Humanistic and Creative Methods in Online Care
Ryan blends a humanistic, client-centered approach with drama-informed methods. A humanistic approach focuses on the person's goals and values, helping them make choices and build self-awareness. Drama-informed methods bring movement, role-play, and creative exercises into sessions to help people access feelings and practice new ways of relating.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that match those needs. Together they check what helps and adjust the plan as work progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to give practical flexibility. Video allows face-to-face interaction for role work and visual cues, while phone calls can fit into a short break and need less bandwidth. Live chat or text messaging can be used for brief check-ins, notes between sessions, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to schedule care around work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English