Lisa Shifflett
Supportive counselor for practical family needs
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lisa
Lisa Shifflett is a licensed professional counselor in Tennessee with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and issues with motivation and self-esteem. She meets people where they are and aims to create practical steps forward rather than use confusing jargon.
She works by listening first and then shaping a plan that fits each person’s life. Conversations are guided by respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Background and approach
She adapts pacing and techniques to what feels most useful for the client. Her work includes support for relationship and family concerns, grief, parenting challenges, anger, and struggles with addiction or substance use. She also helps with body image, eating and sleeping problems, ADHD, bipolar concerns, and stress from caregiving or career change.
Therapeutic tools she commonly uses include client-centered approaches, cognitive behavioral strategies, motivational interviewing, solution-focused techniques, and trauma-focused methods. These are applied in simple, concrete ways like breaking down problems, practicing new skills, and setting short-term goals. Clients can expect straightforward collaboration about goals and progress.
Lisa aims to empower people to try new ways of coping and to build routines that reduce overwhelm. If someone wants steady guidance and clear next steps, she offers a practical and compassionate approach.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person at the center of care. It means the therapist listens deeply and follows the client’s pace, helping them name what matters and decide next steps. This approach suits people who need a supportive space to sort out priorities and values.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches simple skills to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and managing stress in everyday life.
Motivational Interviewing is a short-term method to build motivation for change. It uses curious questions and reflective listening to help people find their own reasons to try something different. This approach often pairs well with goal-focused plans when someone feels stuck.
Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk about options and try techniques that match a person’s goals, comfort level, and day-to-day needs. Adjustments are made along the way so the work stays useful and manageable.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These formats make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, or caregiving. They also allow regular check-ins and brief skill practice between sessions, helping people apply tools where they live and work.
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.
Motivational Interviewing
A way of working through mixed feelings about change without being pushed. The therapist helps you weigh things up and find your own reasons, which often makes a difficult decision feel less stuck.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- 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
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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