Lisa Adler
Calm, practical support for life’s hard moments
- Credentials
- LPC-MH
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed in
- South Dakota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lisa
Lisa Adler is a licensed professional counselor with a mental health endorsement who brings 26 years of experience to her work. She focuses on common life stresses like anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting concerns. She also addresses relationships, addictions, trauma and abuse, and issues with sleep, eating, and self-esteem.
Lisa speaks plainly and aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable. Lisa believes each person knows their own story and has strengths to build on.
Background and approach
In sessions she listens without judgment and offers clear, honest feedback about what might help. She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and will explain options so clients can choose what fits them best. Her background includes long-term clinical work in South Dakota.
Over the years she has helped people cope with major life changes, career stress, compassion fatigue, and co-occurring challenges like chronic pain or ADHD. She also has experience with adoption and foster care questions, blended family concerns, and caregiver stress. Communication is an important part of her practice.
She generally checks messages several times a day and asks for patience when responses take a bit longer. Sessions are offered through a mix of video, phone, live chat, and text messaging to match different needs. Lisa aims to support and empower clients as they work toward practical goals.
She focuses on helping people make small, actionable changes that add up over time.
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and clear skills. One common approach is cognitive methods that help identify unhelpful thought patterns and replace them with more balanced ways of thinking; these techniques are useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Another common method focuses on skill building for coping and emotion regulation, offering specific tools for managing anger, grief, and overwhelming feelings.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and personal preferences and then recommend techniques to try. Clients and the therapist check in regularly to see what is working and make adjustments together.
Online therapy offers flexibility that can make consistent care easier. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations from home, phone sessions remove travel needs, and live chat or text messaging can work for short check-ins or when a client needs quick support. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- South Dakota
- Languages
- English
Next step
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