- CBT techniques
- Psychodynamic ideas
- Faith-informed care
About Lisa
Lisa Mbriwa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with 15 years of clinical experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strains, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, and depression. Lisa also addresses concerns tied to adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and codependency.
She began her career in community-based mental health and has spent years supporting people through a wide range of life transitions. That work included involvement with children and families connected to foster care and the child welfare system. Lisa also brings experience in counseling from a Christian perspective for those who want that frame of reference.
Her style blends cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, and psychodynamic techniques. In practice she uses those approaches to help people clarify patterns, try new responses, and understand how past experiences affect present feelings. Sessions aim to be practical and focused on real life concerns like communication, boundaries, and managing intense reactions.
People looking for help with family of origin issues, forgiveness, or relationship ruptures often find her background relevant. She commonly addresses dissociation, control and dependency patterns, grief, and complications after infidelity or separation. Lisa adjusts her approach based on each person’s needs and goals.
Sessions are conducted in English and reflect her years of community mental health work and private practice experience. Before booking, readers should confirm current session options and formats to make sure they fit with individual schedules.
How therapeutic approaches shape online sessions
Lisa blends cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic ideas, plus humanistic perspectives, into her clinical work. Cognitive-behavioral methods focus on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress. Psychodynamic approaches look at how earlier relationships and experiences influence current feelings and repeated patterns. Humanistic ideas emphasize the person’s values and lived experience when setting goals.Finding the right mix of techniques is part of the work. She will collaborate with each person to decide what to try first and will adjust methods based on how things are going. That means therapy can shift between talking about patterns, practicing skills, or reflecting on past experiences depending on the client’s needs and goals.
The biography does not state which session formats are offered, so please confirm current online options before booking. In general, remote sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow quieter check-ins during a work break, or reduce travel time for appointments. Licensed professionals can use different approaches in remote sessions to focus on communication skills, boundary work, and processing difficult emotions without promising specific formats or outcomes.
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Experience
15+ years
Listed in
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she work with?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, parenting concerns, and depression, plus related topics like forgiveness and family of origin problems.
How does she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She uses cognitive-behavioral and psychodynamic ideas to help people understand where guilt or shame comes from and to try new ways of responding to those feelings.
What is her clinical background?
She has 15 years of experience, beginning in community-based mental health and later working with families involved in foster care and the child welfare system.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or to people outside the US?
Sessions are offered in English, and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list session formats. Please confirm current session options before scheduling.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.