Lisa Connelly, LPC
Compassionate counselor for life changes
Details
| Name | Lisa Connelly |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LPC |
| Based in | Texas |
| Licensed in | Texas |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 15 |
About Lisa
Lisa Connelly is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with fifteen years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and trauma. She works with clients facing relationship and intimacy challenges, parenting strain, addiction concerns, and life transitions. Her approach is practical and conversational and aimed at helping people feel steadier day to day.
Lisa uses Narrative Therapy along with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people tell their story differently.
Background and approach
She pays attention to attachment and relationship patterns that shape how people connect and cope. Sessions focus on clear goals, small experiments, and skills that can be practiced between meetings. Her background includes work in inpatient psychiatric settings, chemical dependency treatment, outpatient clinics, therapeutic group homes, and independent practice.
That range has exposed her to many kinds of challenges and stages of recovery. Lisa draws on that experience to tailor sessions to each person's needs rather than offering a one-size-fits-all plan. In sessions, she favors a calm, direct style that helps people notice unhelpful patterns and try new approaches.
She helps parents with parenting stress, people struggling with body image or eating concerns, and those managing chronic pain, ADHD, or mood instability. Therapy is collaborative - the client and Lisa set goals together and test what works. Clients can expect short-term skills for coping and longer-term work on deeper patterns like attachment and abandonment fears.
Lisa aims to help people reconnect to what matters to them and build sustainable routines for better sleep, emotion regulation, and relationships.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Relationship issues, Trauma and abuse among the things Lisa works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Existential Therapy: Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Gottman Method: Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Jungian Therapy: Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Motivational Interviewing: Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Psychodynamic Therapy: Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Trauma-Focused Therapy: Listed by Lisa among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Lisa directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Lisa directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Lisa often draws from Narrative Therapy to help people separate themselves from problem stories and see other possibilities. Narrative work is useful for relationship strains, identity concerns, and recurring patterns that feel stuck.She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and identifying values to guide action. ACT can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Attachment-Based Therapy is part of her practice as well and looks at how early connection patterns shape current relationships; it can be helpful for intimacy issues, abandonment worries, and communication problems.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will listen to your history, goals, and current struggles and suggest methods to try. You and the therapist can adapt the plan over time based on what feels useful and what leads to real changes in daily life.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility: video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn't wanted, live chat for a focused check-in, and text-based messaging for brief updates or ongoing reflection. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, parenting, or busy schedules while still working on attachment, narrative shifts, and actionable skills.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of problems does Lisa help with?
She supports people with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, addictions, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and sleeping concerns, parenting stress, anger, self-esteem, career questions, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her style is conversational and practical. She helps clients tell their stories differently, set goals, and try concrete skills between sessions.
What is her professional background?
She has 15 years of experience working in inpatient psychiatric hospitals, chemical dependency treatment, outpatient clinics, therapeutic group homes, and independent practice.
What are her credentials and where is she located?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Texas and practices from Texas.
Can I work with her in a language other than English?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How does payment work and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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