Lisa Parise, LICSW, LCSW

Lisa Parise is a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker and a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 15 years of experience. She practices in Virginia and meets people where they are when life feels hard. She aims to create a calm space for talking about pain, stress, or big changes.

Her background includes a Master of Arts in Social Work from Fordham University. She draws on approaches like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, attachment-based work, client-centered methods, and mindfulness. Lisa also brings a movement-informed perspective from her somatic and yoga background and listens for how the body reflects emotional experience.

In sessions she focuses on concrete skills and gentle exploration. That can mean learning ways to notice unhelpful thoughts, practicing emotion regulation skills, or mapping patterns from early relationships that still cause pain. She also supports people coping with grief, addiction concerns, gender and identity questions, and intense stress.

Her style is steady and collaborative. She helps people name what matters and build small changes they can use day to day. Sessions move at a practical pace and aim to leave people with tools they can try between meetings.

People often come for help with relationship strain, attachment wounds, self-esteem, or cycles of anxiety and depression. If you want to explore how patterns or trauma show up in daily life, Lisa offers thoughtful, experience-based guidance.

How therapeutic approaches guide online work

Lisa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and attachment-based methods alongside mindfulness practices to address emotional and relational problems. CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. Attachment-based work looks at early relationship patterns and how they show up now, which can be useful for intimacy and relationship concerns.

Mindfulness practices help people build awareness of feelings and bodily cues so they can respond differently to stress. These approaches are described simply in sessions and then practiced in everyday life, using exercises and short skills that fit into a regular routine.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences, and she will adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

If you are interested in online therapy, confirm available session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when a full hour isn't needed. Talk with the therapist about how you want sessions to fit your life and daily routine.