- Person-centered approach
- Experience with foster care
- Practical coping steps
About Lisa
Lisa Mbriwa is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience in community-based mental health. She aims to help people feel heard, seen, and respected as they work through hard moments. Lisa emphasizes a compassionate, person-centered way of working that focuses on each person's story and values.
She began her career in community settings and has supported people through a wide range of struggles. That background includes work with trauma, stress, anxiety, depression, relationship conflict, and parenting concerns. Lisa also has extensive experience related to foster care and child welfare matters.
Her style is honest and down-to-earth. Sessions tend to focus on understanding what matters to the individual, building clearer communication, and setting practical steps forward. She adapts how she works depending on each person's goals and situation.
Lisa integrates cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, and psychodynamic ideas and adjusts them to fit the person in front of her. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can go at their own pace and try different ways of coping.
People come for help with relationship stress, parenting strain, grief, boundaries, and effects of past abuse. She also addresses blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, codependency, and issues tied to adoption and foster care. Her practice reflects respect, authenticity, and steady support as people make changes.
To start, she asks people about their concerns and what they hope to achieve so sessions can be tailored to practical goals and realistic next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and how they translate to online work
Lisa draws on cognitive-behavioral ideas that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT-style techniques often include practical exercises and step-by-step strategies for anxiety, depression, and relationship patterns.She also uses humanistic, person-centered methods that emphasize being heard and respected. This approach helps people feel understood and supports exploring values, identity, and meaningful goals.
Psychodynamic ideas are part of her work too, looking at patterns from earlier relationships that show up now. That can help with family of origin issues, attachment themes, and repeated relationship difficulties.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try techniques that match those goals, and adjust over time. Clients and therapist decide together which methods feel most helpful.
For practical online therapy details, confirm the session formats before booking since the biography did not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when days are tight, or reduce travel time so sessions are more consistent. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises, communication skills practice, and coping tools to remote sessions so progress continues even when meeting virtually.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
15+ years
Credentials
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship issues, and parenting challenges. Additional focuses include adoption and foster care, blended family issues, caregiver stress, and codependency.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her approach is compassionate and person-centered. She listens for each person's story and adapts methods to fit practical goals and pace.
What kind of experience does she have?
She has 15 years of experience in community-based mental health settings, working with a broad range of concerns and populations related to child welfare and foster care.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats were not specified in the biography.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What should I do to begin working together?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule based on the therapist's availability.