About Lisa
Lisa Encinas is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in California with seven years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, low mood, and self-esteem concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports those facing big life changes and relationship difficulties. In sessions she focuses on building an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can say what they really feel.
Conversations are practical and down-to-earth. She pays attention to everyday routines and habits that affect mood and relationships.
Lisa works with concerns such as abandonment, body image, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, communication problems, and the fallout from divorce or separation. She also addresses issues tied to family of origin, guilt and shame, and challenges related to HIV/AIDS and hearing impairment.
Therapy often includes talking through specific problems, trying new ways of interacting, and practicing skills at home between meetings. The goal is to build tools that make daily life easier and relationships clearer.
Sessions are offered in English, Spanish, and American Sign Language. Lisa uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to meet people where they are.
Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to make that step straightforward and respectful.
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional understanding. One common approach emphasizes identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new, balanced ways of thinking to reduce anxiety and low mood. This method helps people spot patterns that feed stress and practice alternatives in daily life.Another approach centers on communication and relationship skills. It helps people notice how they interact, try new ways of speaking or listening, and repair patterns that cause friction. This work is useful for improving connection and handling conflicts more calmly.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose techniques that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video works well for face-to-face conversation, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat is good for quick check-ins, and messaging lets people share thoughts between sessions. These formats aim to make therapy more accessible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English, Spanish, American Sign Language