About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Cooney helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward.
Background and approach
She offers a calm, accepting presence and practical ways to reduce distress and regain a sense of control. As a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 25 years of experience, she brings steady support to people facing major life changes.
Her work focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, trauma and LGBTQ concerns. She also addresses relationship troubles, eating and body image issues, anger, bipolar symptoms, and the effects of chronic illness.
Many clients look to her when they need clearer communication or help processing painful events. In sessions she listens closely and helps people identify small, manageable steps.
Conversations aim to increase self-understanding, improve how someone relates to others, and build everyday coping skills. She uses a mix of approaches to match what the person needs in the moment.
Her background includes long experience with attachment and family of origin issues, blended family concerns, codependency, and recovery from domestic violence and substance use. She has worked with people facing cancer and long-term health challenges, and supports those dealing with dissociation and control issues.
Dr. Cooney pairs reflective listening with focused techniques drawn from client-centered, psychodynamic, and experiential methods.
She also uses EMDR and hypnotherapy when appropriate to help process trauma and strong emotional memories. Work with her tends to be collaborative and practical.
How approachable therapies translate to online care
Client-centered work focuses on the person in front of the therapist, following their pace and priorities. It helps when someone needs more self-understanding, clearer choices, or steady emotional support during change.Existential therapy explores meaning, values and life direction, helping people facing big questions or uncertainty. EMDR is a trauma-focused method that uses guided eye movements and memory processing to reduce the emotional intensity of painful memories and related symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will help figure out which methods match a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Decisions are made together and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets people read facial cues while phone calls need less bandwidth. Live chat and messaging are useful for short check-ins, written reflection, or when someone prefers typing. These options make scheduling easier and let people work therapy into busy days.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- California, Texas, Arizona, District of Columbia, Oregon, New Jersey
- Languages
- English