Lisa Franco , LIMFT

Lisa Franco is a Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist who focuses on practical help for people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, trauma, low self-esteem, and depression. She works with adults who want clearer direction and better emotional balance. Her approach is straightforward and aimed at helping people get unstuck and move toward their goals.

She emphasizes short, focused conversations that identify what is most urgent and what can change. Sessions often include skills for handling panic, ways to manage mood swings, and tools to improve communication in close relationships. She also addresses issues that commonly affect women such as body image and self-love while keeping the work concrete and goal-oriented.

With four years of clinical experience in Ohio as an LIMFT, she brings real-world practice to everyday problems like money stress, midlife transitions, and the emotional fallout of divorce or separation. Lisa centers practical steps alongside emotional processing to create steady progress.

Therapy sessions may involve short check-ins, skill practice, and planning for the week ahead. She encourages people to name small, achievable changes and to track how those shifts affect daily life. The tone in sessions is supportive but grounded in action.

Lisa invites those who are exploring their life purpose or facing guilt and shame to try focused work that balances feelings with problem solving. People seeking help for post-traumatic stress, panic attacks, or mood disorder symptoms will find an emphasis on steady, readable strategies to improve day-to-day functioning.

Evidence-based approaches and online care

Lisa incorporates evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skill building and emotional processing. One approach emphasizes gradual skill practice for managing anxiety and panic attacks, teaching breathing, grounding, and short behavioral steps to reduce acute symptoms and build confidence. Another approach centers on improving communication and relationship patterns by identifying interaction habits and rehearsing clearer, calmer responses to reduce conflict and increase connection.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which techniques match their goals, needs, and comfort level. Together they try methods, check what helps, and adjust the plan over time so the therapy stays useful and relevant.

Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexible options. Video sessions let people use visual cues for deeper conversations, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat supports brief check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats help people fit therapy into busy schedules and continue care across different locations.