About Lisa
Lisa Lionelli is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida who focuses on practical, evidence-based care. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and low self-esteem. Sessions are offered in English and Spanish and use straightforward strategies to address day-to-day struggles.
Lisa centers sessions on what feels most important to each person. She listens for patterns such as attachment wounds, feelings of abandonment, or persistent emptiness, and then helps people try new ways of relating and coping.
Background and approach
Work often includes improving communication, managing intense emotions, and rebuilding self-worth. With eight years of clinical experience, Lisa has supported people dealing with substance concerns, divorce and separation, dissociation, and mood regulation challenges such as Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder. She also addresses issues like guilt, shame, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
Her style is practical and compassionate rather than theoretical. Therapy sessions mix reflection with concrete skills practice. Clients can expect help identifying unhelpful habits, testing small changes, and tracking progress between visits.
Lisa places emphasis on self-compassion and on building routines that support emotional stability. People who choose Lisa typically want clear tools and steady support while they work through painful experiences. She aims to create an honest, respectful space where realistic change is possible and where each person’s goals guide the pace of work.
Choosing approaches and using online sessions
Lisa uses evidence-based techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach is trauma-informed work, which helps people process painful memories at a manageable pace and reduce their daily impact. This approach is useful for those coping with past abuse, dissociation, or chronic anxiety. Another frequently used method focuses on mood and behavior strategies that teach concrete skills for managing depression, mood swings, and emotional reactivity. These skills include simple routines, activity planning, and emotion regulation techniques that can be practiced between sessions.Finding the right way to work together is part of therapy. Lisa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they will try approaches that fit the person’s needs and adjust as progress is made, keeping the plan collaborative and flexible.
Online therapy with Lisa is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more accessible. Video sessions are useful for a full conversation and visual cues. Phone work can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is hard. Live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins, quick coping reminders, or more frequent support between longer sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy lives and stay consistent with the work.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish