About Lisa
Lisa Lucius is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who helps people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, and life transitions. She works with individuals dealing with stress, addictions, ADHD, and issues around self-esteem and intimacy.
Background and approach
Her approach is direct and practical so parents can quickly see how sessions might help their situation. She draws on ten years of experience in California and uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs.
Sessions often include mindfulness practices to calm the body and CBT techniques to change unhelpful thinking patterns. When emotion regulation is needed, she brings in DBT skills and motivational interviewing to support commitment to change.
Lisa favors straightforward conversations and nonjudgmental listening. She teaches communication skills and some inner child work when that helps people understand recurring patterns.
Practical tools and short exercises are commonly part of sessions so clients leave with things to try between meetings. She has worked with people who have experienced trauma and with those facing serious mental health challenges as well as folks focused on personal growth.
Her background includes hospice and end-of-life counseling, which informs a calm, steady style when heavy topics come up. Sessions are offered in English and use a variety of online formats.
The goal is to help people find clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and more satisfying relationships through collaborative, goal-oriented work.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Lisa often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot and shift unhelpful thoughts and patterns. CBT is practical and action-oriented, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, or coping with life changes.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy techniques to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. DBT skills are helpful when feelings feel overwhelming or when communication repeatedly breaks down.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will listen to your goals and try methods that fit your needs, adjusting the plan as progress and preferences emerge. That collaborative process helps make sessions feel useful and focused.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is good for a face-to-face feel, phone can work when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or messaging can be useful for quick check-ins or shorter, flexible touchpoints. These options make it easier to keep up with therapy during busy weeks, manage follow-up between meetings, and access care from wherever you are in California.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Codependency
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English