About Lisa
Lisa Wyatt is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, or changes at work and home.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping clients feel more capable in daily life. With 19 years of clinical experience, Lisa draws on approaches that center the client and build on existing strengths.
She helps people notice how their thoughts and reactions shape their behaviors and then try small, realistic changes. Sessions are conversational and paced to what each person needs.
She often supports people coping with trauma, addiction, compassion fatigue, parenting challenges, intimacy questions, and identity-related concerns. Additional focus areas include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family dynamics, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and forgiveness work.
Lisa also works with people exploring kink, BDSM, and alternative sex culture in a nonjudgmental way. Her approach blends Attachment-Based Therapy with client-centered listening and cognitive-behavioral techniques.
Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are used when helpful to increase self-awareness and motivation for change. She aims to tailor methods to each person instead of using a one-size-fits-all plan.
People who come to Lisa can expect practical tools to manage emotion, clearer communication skills, and steps to move past stuck patterns. She frames progress as steady and collaborative, helping clients try what fits their life and adjust as needed.
How approach and online care come together
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early patterns affect current relationships. It focuses on safety, connection, and how to rebuild trust and closeness after hurts or separation. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's own goals and pace, with the therapist offering empathic listening and reflection so the client leads the work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions, and uses concrete exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Lisa will talk with each person about their goals, challenges, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust those methods over time based on what is working and what is not. The process is collaborative and practical, not one-size-fits-all.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for short check-ins. Live chat and text messaging let people send notes or get brief support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, parenting, or caregiving schedules and to continue care when travel or location would otherwise be a barrier.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 19 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English