About Lisa
Lisa Dorfman is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 38 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are managing stress, anxiety, eating concerns, grief, trauma, and life transitions. Her background blends mental health work with attention to body image and caregiver stress, aiming to improve daily functioning and resilience.
She uses straightforward, practical methods in sessions. Lisa often combines client-centered conversations with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness.
Background and approach
She also uses EMDR and dialectical behavior therapy tools when they fit a person's needs. Sessions tend to focus on skills people can use between meetings to handle difficult moments. Her approach treats each person as an individual.
She helps people name problems, set realistic goals, and practice new coping strategies. She also addresses career stress, relationship concerns, and parenting strains when those issues come up for the individual. Lisa brings additional focus on areas such as postpartum depression, first responder and veteran issues, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and recovery from infidelity or other betrayals.
She also works with people struggling with guilt, shame, or low self-worth and supports those rebuilding self-love and confidence. Work can include short-term problem solving or longer-term exploration depending on what the person wants. Lisa accepts international clients and conducts sessions in English.
Sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
Online approaches that meet people where they are
Lisa blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques to focus on what matters to the person. Client-centered work emphasizes listening, reflecting, and helping people set goals that feel right to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches concrete skills to change them.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when intense feelings get in the way of everyday life. DBT skills are practical - breathing and grounding exercises, identifying urges, and step-by-step ways to respond differently to strong emotions.
Finding the right approach happens together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try different techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That collaborative process aims to match methods to needs and preferences rather than imposing one way of working.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to fit different routines. Video calls let people have face-to-face conversation and practice skills together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a person prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing coaching-style support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity across life changes.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating and food-related issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 38 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Utah
- Languages
- English