Lisa Warden
Compassionate social worker focused on recovery and coping
- Credentials
- LMSW, LCSW
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Michigan, Utah, Maine
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lisa
Lisa Warden is a licensed social worker who draws on 16 years of clinical experience. She holds the Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) and Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) credentials. Lisa brings practical awareness of the mind-body connection from earlier work as a massage therapist and uses that perspective when supporting people through difficult issues.
She focuses on recovery from trauma and addictions and on personality-related struggles. Many people she meets feel stuck in survival mode, and she helps them move toward a more manageable day-to-day life.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelming symptoms and increase the ability to enjoy everyday moments. Lisa’s style is warm and flexible. She uses clear, practical tools and often brings humor when it fits.
Her goal is to meet each person where they are and to teach skills they can use between sessions. Her background includes training in Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Existential Therapy, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. She blends approaches to match the needs of the moment.
In practice this means working with both thoughts and behaviors, building emotion regulation skills, and processing traumatic memories when appropriate. Lisa works with common concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She offers a straightforward, compassionate presence and practical steps toward improvement.
Therapeutic approaches for online healing and coping
Lisa often integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when working online. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors and can help with anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a structured method for processing traumatic memories and reducing the distress linked to those memories.She also uses Client-Centered Therapy principles, which emphasize a respectful, nonjudgmental listening stance and collaboration. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adjust techniques as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions take place. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions remove travel time, and live chat or text-based messaging can suit people who prefer written communication or smaller, more frequent check-ins. These options make it easier to fit regular sessions into a busy life and to continue care when routines shift.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- 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
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Utah, Maine, North Dakota
- Languages
- English
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