About Lisa
Lisa Sack is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Virginia. She brings 19 years of experience to work with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, parenting questions, and issues like addiction, trauma, grief, and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She emphasizes practical help and steady support for people ready to make changes. She approaches therapy as a collaborative process.
Lisa listens to each person’s story and builds on their existing strengths. She helps clients set clear, realistic goals and uses techniques that fit the person’s needs and pace.
Sessions focus on real-life problems and skills people can use between appointments. That might include ways to manage intense feelings, improve communication, reduce compulsive behaviors, or cope with changes like moving, career shifts, or seasonal mood shifts.
She also offers support for first responder and veteran-related concerns and for people dealing with compassion fatigue or self-harm thoughts. Lisa aims to make therapy straightforward and approachable.
She encourages small steps and measures progress together so people can see what’s changing. Her style is direct but warm, offering guidance while respecting each person’s experience.
Therapy is offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a time that fits the client’s life.
Therapeutic approaches and how online therapy fits
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on practical change. One approach emphasizes building coping skills to manage intense emotions, such as anxiety or depression; clients practice simple tools for grounding, breathing, and thought management that can ease daily stress. Another approach centers on improving communication and problem solving in relationships and family interactions; sessions include role practice and clear exercises to try between meetings that can change how people relate to one another.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try techniques, and adapt methods based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist decide collaboratively which strategies to keep using and which to change as progress happens.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation, phone calls can fit into a work break or require less bandwidth, and messaging or live chat works well for quick check-ins or when someone prefers typed communication. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain steady contact with a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English