Lisa Parise, LICSW, LCSW

Lisa Parise is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience supporting people through hard moments. She holds an MA and practices in Virginia as an LICSW and LCSW. Lisa welcomes conversations about addiction, trauma, loss, mood concerns, and stress.

Her style is practical and person-focused. She listens first, then helps people notice patterns and try small changes. Sessions often mix talking with skills practice and mindfulness. Lisa leans on approaches that help with emotion regulation, motivation, and safety.

Clients come with a range of concerns including substance use, grief, identity questions, and burnout. She also works with people facing relationship strain, attachment wounds, body-image struggles, and midlife transitions. Her background includes work with trauma-related symptoms and mood disorders.

Lisa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors. She draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy for emotion coping and distress tolerance skills. Attachment-Based and Client-Centered methods guide the way she builds trust and centers each person’s goals.

Her approach is collaborative and respectful. She helps people set realistic steps and measures progress along the way. If you want to try a practical, mindful style of therapy for addiction, anxiety, or life changes, she can help you sort options and plan next steps.

How Lisa’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Attachment-Based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how those early experiences shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can help people name these patterns and practice different ways of relating in everyday life.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people spot thoughts that keep problems going and then try new behaviors to test different outcomes. This approach is action-oriented and often uses homework between sessions to build new skills.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions, tolerating distress, and improving relationships. It’s useful when overwhelming feelings or impulsive urges get in the way of daily life.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Together they will adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful and practical.

Many people find online therapy easier to fit into busy lives because it reduces travel and can allow sessions during work breaks or between errands. The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available options before booking. Online sessions can make it simpler to follow CBT homework, practice DBT skills between meetings, and keep continuity when life is hectic.