Lisa Carnicelli

Lisa Carnicelli is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York with 15 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, and the fallout of relationship changes like divorce and separation. Her tone is warm and collaborative, and she focuses on practical steps that can fit into everyday life.

Lisa uses approachable methods to help clients understand how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. She favors straightforward tools to reduce panic, manage mood shifts, and calm racing thoughts. Sessions aim to build skills that can be practiced between appointments.

Her background includes work across nonprofit, community, and private-practice settings. That range informs a flexible style that adapts to each person’s needs. Lisa draws on client-centered ideas to keep the conversation focused on what matters most to the individual.

She also employs techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and emotionally-focused approaches to address relationship patterns and communication problems. Mindfulness and solution-focused methods are used when the goal is clearer coping strategies or short-term problem solving.

People come to Lisa for relationship struggles, parenting strains, trauma and abuse recovery, grief, and life transitions. She helps those dealing with self-esteem issues, loneliness, and workplace stress. The work moves at a pace set by the client, with attention to achievable goals and real-world steps.

How Lisa’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so the person feels heard and understood; it helps when someone needs a steady, nonjudgmental space to sort through emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions are connected and uses practical exercises to reduce anxiety, panic, and depressive patterns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people identify and shift interaction patterns in relationships, making it useful for communication problems and intimacy-related issues.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying tools together, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed so therapy stays useful and relevant.

The therapist’s biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports using between-session exercises and mindful practices in everyday settings, helping clients apply new skills where they live and work.