Lisa Carrillo , LMFT

Lisa Carrillo is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) practicing in California with 16 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping individuals and families manage stress and anxiety, navigate relationship and parenting challenges, and address anger management. Her work also includes support for self-esteem concerns, depression, addictions, LGBT issues, family and trauma-related problems, grief, intimacy-related concerns, career questions, bipolar disorder, and coping with life changes.

Lisa approaches therapy with the belief that each person is the expert of their own story and brings strengths that can be used to overcome obstacles. She partners with clients to identify practical steps and build on those strengths, tailoring interventions to each person and situation. Beginning therapy often requires courage, and Lisa acknowledges that first step while providing supportive guidance through the early stages of change.

Clients can expect a collaborative, respectful style that centers their goals and priorities. Lisa draws on established clinical methods to help people make meaningful progress in areas that matter most to them, whether the concerns are immediate and practical or tied to longer-term patterns in relationships and mood.

Approaches - CBT, Psychodynamic, and Solution-Focused Online

Lisa Carrillo integrates several evidence-based approaches into her online work to meet different needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and shifting thought and behavior patterns that contribute to stress, anxiety, and mood concerns, offering concrete skills for coping and problem solving. Psychodynamic therapy explores how past experiences and longstanding emotional patterns influence present relationships and internal life, supporting deeper understanding of recurring difficulties. Solution-Focused Therapy is brief and goal-oriented, emphasizing a client’s strengths and practical steps to address immediate concerns such as parenting challenges, career decisions, or life transitions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is handled collaboratively. Lisa works with clients to clarify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and she adapts methods as progress unfolds. This collaborative planning helps tailor sessions to each person’s situation.

Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit support into busy schedules or manage care from different locations. These options allow therapists and clients to maintain continuity of care, respond to needs in real time, and choose the format that best supports each stage of work.