Lisa Young , LCSW

Lisa Young is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience helping people navigate some of life’s toughest moments. She brings compassion, curiosity, and steady support to her work, guiding clients from immediate coping strategies toward more meaningful, sustainable change. Clients often describe her as genuine, caring, and relatable. Lisa typically practices from a trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy stance and blends therapeutic intervention, education, and coaching to meet each person’s needs as they evolve.

She has substantial experience working with ADHD, depression, and anxiety, and she also supports people dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related concerns, anger, self-esteem issues, life changes, and hospice or end-of-life needs. Lisa works with LGBT clients, helps people set goals and stay accountable, and offers practical tools for reducing isolation and managing stress. As someone who received a late ADHD diagnosis herself, she brings personal insight into the challenges of delayed recognition and uses that perspective in clinical work.

Outside of her professional role, she identifies as a liberal feminist, lives with her wife and two young children, and maintains a small farm alongside many creative interests. She aims to meet people where they are and support them in making life more bearable and more meaningful.

Online Therapeutic Approaches and Remote Care

Lisa Young draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical skills for managing anxiety, depression, stress, and everyday challenges. CBT focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers structured tools for change.

She also uses Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), an approach that supports the processing of traumatic memories and reduces their emotional intensity. EMDR can be useful for people experiencing trauma-related symptoms and distress tied to past events.

Motivational Interviewing is another approach Lisa integrates when clients are working toward change. This collaborative, nonjudgmental conversation style helps people find internal motivation to set and pursue goals, whether that means improving routines, addressing ADHD-related challenges, or making other life adjustments.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lisa will collaborate with each person to determine which methods best match their needs, goals, and preferences and will adapt the plan over time as those needs shift.

Online sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Remote work with licensed professionals and therapists offers flexibility in scheduling, access from home or other convenient locations, and multiple ways to communicate so people can choose the format that feels most comfortable for them.