About Lisa
Lisa Mbriwa is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience in community mental health. She brings a compassionate, person-centered style and aims to make people feel heard and respected. Her tone is warm and direct, with space for each person to tell their story at their own pace.
Her background began in community-based mental health, where she worked with people facing many challenges. That work exposed her to trauma, stress, relationship conflict, anxiety, and depression.
Background and approach
She also has extensive experience connected to foster care and child welfare situations. She describes her way of working as process-oriented and grounded in respect and authenticity. In sessions she listens, asks questions, and helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck.
She adjusts her approach to fit each person’s needs rather than following one fixed method. Her stated approaches include cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, and psychodynamic ways of working. Those styles are used to address problems like communication breakdowns, parenting strain, grief, boundaries, and family of origin issues.
She also brings experience helping people navigate faith-related concerns and church hurt when that is important to them. Many people find practical skills helpful alongside deeper reflection, and her work aims to balance both. She emphasizes clear, respectful conversation and steady support as people work toward healthier relationships and better coping with stress and trauma.
How Lisa’s Approaches Translate to Online Work
Her profile indicates she uses cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, and psychodynamic approaches. Cognitive-behavioral work focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. Humanistic methods emphasize listening, empathy, and helping people feel respected and understood. Psychodynamic ideas look at patterns from earlier relationships that still affect present behavior and help people gain insight.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest techniques that match what the person wants to address. Together they decide whether to focus on skill-building, deeper reflection, or a mix of both as therapy progresses.
Practical benefits of online therapy include fitting sessions into a busy week and reducing travel time. Because session formats are not specified in the biography, confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to keep appointments around school, work, or caregiving responsibilities and to continue regular check-ins while juggling daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English