Lisa Young , LCSW

Lisa Young is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people navigate some of life’s toughest moments. She brings compassion, curiosity, and a practical, trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy perspective to her work, combining therapeutic intervention, education, and coaching to respond to changing needs over time. She approaches each person as a whole, adapting methods to the situation at hand and focusing on strategies that can make daily life more manageable and meaningful.

Her practice supports people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, ADHD, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, anger, self-esteem struggles, and the challenges that come with major life changes. Additional focus areas include guilt and shame, hospice and end-of-life counseling, isolation and loneliness, and post-traumatic stress. She frequently works with LGBTQ clients and those seeking coaching around goals, accountability, and practical coping skills. Clients usually describe her as genuine, caring, and relatable.

Lisa holds an LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a graduate-level credential that authorizes her to provide psychotherapy and clinical social work services. Outside of her professional role she identifies as a liberal and feminist woman, lives with her wife and two young children, and is a late-diagnosis ADHDer herself. She balances family life with a small farm and a wide range of creative interests, bringing curiosity and real-world understanding to her clinical work.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care

Lisa Young commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and EMDR to address symptoms and patterns that interfere with daily functioning. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and developing practical skills to manage anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is a trauma-focused method that helps process distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact, often used for post-traumatic stress and related trauma reactions.

She also draws on motivational interviewing to support clients who are making changes or working toward specific goals; this approach emphasizes collaboration, exploring ambivalence, and building intrinsic motivation. Choosing the right method is a collaborative process - the therapist and client work together to determine which approaches fit the client’s needs, goals, and preferences, and methods are adjusted as those needs evolve.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility that can make consistent care easier to maintain. Through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, clients can access support from licensed professionals without rearranging as much of their daily routine. These options make it possible to receive ongoing therapeutic work, goal-focused coaching, and trauma-informed interventions from locations that suit each person’s life.