Malisa Hepner, LCSW - Therapist in Oklahoma

About Malisa

Malisa Hepner is a licensed social worker who focuses on family and parenting concerns, stress, anxiety, relationships, and building self-esteem. She speaks plainly and brings direct, practical guidance to conversations. Parents who want clear tools and straightforward feedback may find her style helpful.

She describes her approach as non-traditional and draws on personal experience with complex trauma recovery to inform her work. That lived perspective shapes how she teaches skills and guides conversations about motivation, confidence, grief, and coping with life changes.

Background and approach

She uses concrete strategies rather than abstract theories. Her toolbox includes methods from attachment-based work, emotion-focused approaches, mindfulness, dialectical behavior therapy, and solution-focused techniques. In sessions she emphasizes improving communication, addressing control issues, and navigating difficult transitions such as divorce or separation.

She also helps people facing guilt, shame, isolation, and searching for life purpose. Malisa holds an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and practices in Oklahoma. She has three years of professional experience.

Sessions are offered in English through online formats like video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Her style tends to be candid and instructional. She combines clinical approaches with the perspective she gained while healing post-traumatic stress.

That mix aims to give practical steps and emotional insight for parents and families working through common life stresses.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds affect current relationships and communication. It helps people understand patterns in close relationships and supports changes to feel more supported and connected. Emotionally-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying and shifting emotional responses in relationships so partners or family members can reconnect and solve recurring conflicts. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.

Choosing an approach is a collaboration. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they try methods and adjust based on what works best for the person or family.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for parents and caregivers juggling schedules. These formats make it easier to fit regular work on communication, coping skills, and emotion management into a busy life. Licensed professionals can use these options to continue consistent work without needing to travel to an office, while maintaining a steady therapeutic plan adapted to each client.

Attachment-Based Therapy

Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.

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.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of problems does she address?

She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include communication problems, control issues, grief and separation, guilt and shame, isolation, life purpose, and post-traumatic stress.

What is her therapeutic approach like?

Her style is direct and practical, using tools from attachment-based work, dialectical behavior therapy, emotionally-focused therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused methods. Sessions aim for clear skills and conversational teaching rather than abstract theory.

How much clinical experience does she have?

She has three years of professional experience and has integrated personal experience with complex trauma into her approach.

What are her credentials and where does she practice?

She is an LCSW - Licensed Clinical Social Worker - and holds license number OK LCSW 20044 in Oklahoma.

What languages are sessions offered in?

Sessions are offered in English.

Which session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging as ways to meet online.

How does pricing work for sessions?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

What is the process to begin working together?

To start, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.

Specialties and expertise

Top specialties

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Family conflicts

Also works with

Therapeutic approaches

Experience: 3 years
Licensed: Oklahoma
Languages: English

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