Lisa Scott

Lisa Scott is a licensed social worker with 32 years of experience supporting people through strong emotions like anger, stress, anxiety, and depression. She offers a calm, straightforward style and helps clients who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to handle life changes.

Her work focuses on clear communication and building coping skills. She helps people address self-esteem, relationship strain, addictive behaviors, and parenting stress. She also supports those dealing with trauma, grief, intimacy challenges, and ADHD-related struggles.

Lisa uses practical therapy methods that encourage self-reflection and action. She blends approaches to match what each person needs, drawing on cognitive tools, mindfulness, and emotion-focused work to reduce reactivity and improve decision making.

Her background includes long experience with caregivers, young adults, and people facing prejudice or discrimination. She aims to make sessions a place to sort priorities, practice new responses, and plan small steps forward.

Sessions tend to revolve around what is most pressing for the client, whether that is managing anger in daily life, coping with loss, or handling career and family transitions. Lisa explains options in plain language, helps set realistic goals, and reviews progress as the work moves along.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck and then take values-based action. It is often useful for anxiety, anger, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behavior to reduce symptoms like depression and anxiety. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the client's priorities, offering a nonjudgmental space to be heard and to explore what matters most.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they will try methods that fit the person, and adjust strategies as progress is observed.

Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by removing travel time and allowing sessions during lunch breaks or evenings. It can also let a person choose audio-only or video conversations when that better matches their needs, and it supports stepping through skills and coaching between sessions in ways that suit day-to-day routines.