Lisa Brown
Calm, experienced support for parenting and life stress
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lisa
Lisa Brown is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with more than 20 years of practice in Virginia. She draws on long experience in outpatient clinics, residential treatment, hospitals, and schools to help people facing stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and trauma. Her work is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping parents and individuals manage day-to-day demands and crises.
She teaches graduate social work courses, most often on childhood trauma and its long-term effects.
Background and approach
That teaching keeps her current with research and clinical practice. She is trained in EMDR therapy, a method used to address traumatic memories and reduce disturbing symptoms. Her clinical focus includes anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress.
She also supports people dealing with grief, parenting challenges, relationship strain, career change, compassion fatigue, and attention difficulties. She approaches these concerns with clear, actionable strategies rather than jargon. Sessions are offered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules.
She generally keeps weekday daytime hours and asks prospective clients to use the Start Therapy process to match and schedule. Lisa holds Virginia LCSW 0904005572 and brings two decades of hands-on experience to her work. She balances practical skill with attention to what each person needs in the moment.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Lisa is trained in EMDR therapy, which uses structured phases to help people process distressing memories. EMDR aims to reduce the intensity of traumatic memories and related symptoms so daily functioning improves.She also uses evidence-based strategies for mood and anxiety management such as cognitive-behavioral techniques. These methods focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior to reduce worry, low mood, and impulsive reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss needs, goals, and personal preferences and adapt techniques as therapy progresses. Clients can expect clear explanations of methods and joint decisions about what to try next.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. These formats let people fit care into busy days, avoid travel, and use the style of communication that works best for them. Licensed professionals can provide the same structured treatments and practical tools through these channels while adjusting pacing for online work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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