Lisa Kelbaugh , LCMHC

Lisa Kelbaugh is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with 14 years of professional experience. She works with people facing stress and anxiety, trauma and abuse, and parenting challenges, and she supports efforts to build motivation, self-esteem, and confidence. Lisa emphasizes practical skills alongside emotional understanding to help clients manage everyday struggles and major life transitions.

Her practice is built around creating an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared and explored safely. She partners with each person to set meaningful goals and develop concrete steps toward those goals, whether the focus is coping, relationship work, or improving overall wellbeing. Lisa acknowledges that starting therapy takes courage and offers steady support for those first steps and the work that follows.

Approaches for Online Care and Collaboration

Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and emotional response. In this approach the therapist helps identify relationship patterns and works with clients to develop healthier attachment styles, which can be useful for relationship, family, and trust-related concerns.

Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes empathic listening and collaboration, allowing the client to lead the pace and focus of each session. This approach supports self-exploration, confidence building, and clearer decision-making by honoring the client’s experience and values.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) offers practical strategies to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is often applied to symptoms of anxiety, depression, sleep difficulties, and coping with life changes through targeted exercises and skill practice.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Lisa works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and personal preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.

Online therapy offers flexible access to licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, maintain continuity during life transitions, and access support from home or other convenient locations.