Lisa Rivers
Calm, practical support for everyday struggles
- Credentials
- MN Psychologist LP 3666
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lisa
Lisa Rivers is a licensed psychologist in Minnesota with 29 years of experience. She uses clear, practical methods to help people handle stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Her style is warm and straightforward and she aims to make sessions feel manageable for busy parents and adults.
Clients can expect a focused, down-to-earth approach. Lisa listens closely and helps people set small, doable goals. She works on communication skills, coping with life changes, sleep problems, and rebuilding self-esteem.
Background and approach
Her background spans many related concerns, from grief and compassion fatigue to intimacy and career stress. She also addresses issues such as abandonment, attachment difficulties, body image, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to autism and Asperger Syndrome. Therapy draws on methods like client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and solution-focused strategies.
Lisa adapts these tools to each person’s situation instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan. Sessions are offered in English and are available in several online formats. She holds the license MN Psychologist LP 3666 and practices in Minnesota.
The approach is practical and collaborative, geared toward steady, helpful change.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and building a trusting working relationship. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, reflects back what she hears, and helps clients name their priorities so sessions feel relevant and respectful.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and then tests small changes to see if they help. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and patterns that get in the way of daily life because it emphasizes clear skills and short experiments.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lisa works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals and day-to-day needs. She checks in about what is or isn't helping and adjusts the plan together with the client.
Online sessions offer practical benefits for people with busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone work lets you connect without video, and live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins and follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into regular life while keeping the focus on progress and usable skills.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English
Next step
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