Lisa Mbriwa
Compassionate counselor for family and parenting concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lisa
Lisa Mbriwa is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience in community-based mental health. She approaches therapy in a person-centered, process-oriented way. Her goal is to help people feel heard, seen, and respected as individuals who bring their own stories and beliefs.
She has worked with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and depression. Her background includes experience with adoption and foster care, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and family-of-origin difficulties.
Background and approach
She also has experience that addresses issues related to divorce, domestic violence, and forgiveness. Mbriwa blends cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, and psychodynamic techniques and adapts them to each person's needs. In sessions she focuses on clear communication, healthy boundaries, and practical steps people can try between meetings.
The style is respectful and direct while remaining warm and supportive. She brings particular experience from work with children and families involved in foster care and the child welfare system. She also offers counseling informed by Christian perspectives when clients request that lens.
People seeking help with parenting, blended family questions, or relationship repair often find this background relevant. To start, readers are encouraged to use the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on therapist availability. The subscription used for sessions can be canceled at any time, and cost varies with location and availability.
How therapeutic approaches guide online work
Lisa combines cognitive-behavioral ideas with humanistic and psychodynamic perspectives. Cognitive-behavioral strategies focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and are useful for anxiety, stress, and depression. Humanistic techniques emphasize listening, respect for your values, and supporting personal growth. Psychodynamic ideas look at past patterns and relationships to understand current struggles, which can help with family-of-origin issues and repeated relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, history, and comfort level. Sessions can blend techniques over time so the plan changes as progress is made.
Confirm available session formats before booking, as this profile does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life and reduce travel time. It also lets people schedule shorter check-ins when needed or use longer sessions for deeper work. If you want therapy that focuses on parenting, blended-family dynamics, or trauma recovery, discuss those priorities during the intake so the therapist can tailor the online sessions to your needs.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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