Lisa Taylor , LMHC

Lisa Taylor is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Washington with ten years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, eating concerns, self-esteem, and depression. Her manner is warm and straightforward, and she aims to make therapy feel like a real conversation rather than a lecture.

Lisa draws on approaches that help people break repeating patterns. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships.

She also integrates Client-Centered Therapy to keep sessions grounded in each person's goals and lived experience. Somatic Therapy is used when body-based awareness helps reduce tension and overwhelm. These approaches are chosen to match what someone is facing, not applied on autopilot.

Lisa has worked in intensive outpatient and partial hospitalization programs as well as private practice. That range informs how she supports people who feel stuck or overwhelmed by compulsions, eating struggles, or social anxiety. She understands the practical challenges that come with recovery and day-to-day life.

She pays particular attention to multicultural concerns and issues common for young adults. Lisa supports people navigating body image, self-love, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, phobias, trichotillomania, and the stresses that affect many women. Her goal is to help clients find manageable steps forward while staying seen and heard.

How Lisa's Approaches Work Online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's goals and lived experience, so sessions center on what matters most to the client and move at their pace. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be practiced in session and applied between meetings. DBT offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving interpersonal interactions, useful for anxiety and mood regulation.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative step. The therapist will talk with the client about their needs, goals, and day-to-day life to decide which methods to try first. Plans can be adjusted over time based on what helps and what feels like a good fit.

Online therapy through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging offers flexibility for busy schedules and differing comfort levels. Video calls let people work face to face when they prefer a visual connection. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to fit brief check-ins into a day or to reflect in writing between sessions.