Dr. Lisa Sullivan

Dr. Lisa Sullivan helps people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, relationship concerns, and life transitions such as divorce and separation. She is a California licensed psychologist who brings ten years of clinical practice to each session. Her style is practical and down-to-earth, aimed at helping people find clearer direction and better day-to-day coping.

Her approach centers on listening first. Sessions focus on what feels most urgent to the client, then build small, manageable steps forward. She draws on client-centered methods to make space for each person's priorities and on cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.

Dr. Sullivan has experience helping people with parenting questions, blended family concerns, fertility and postpartum issues, and midlife or career strain. She also supports people coping with chronic anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, and somatic symptoms where stress shows up in the body.

Her background includes a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and a decade of clinical work in California, including psychological testing and work with adults, adolescents, and children. The Ph.D. is noted here in full as Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology.

In sessions she aims to balance empathy with practical tools. People often leave with clearer priorities and simple strategies to try between meetings. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule sessions based on the therapist's availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and helping the client set the agenda. In online sessions this means the therapist lets the client identify pressing concerns and follows their pace, creating room for practical problem solving and emotional processing.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thought and behavior and teaches concrete techniques to change them. Online CBT can include learning simple tools to manage anxiety, reshaping unhelpful thinking, and trying out small behavior changes between meetings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, and then adapt the mix of client-centered listening and CBT exercises to fit the person's needs. This is a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.

Session formats are not specified in the biography, so confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow focused follow-up between meetings. It can also make some exercises simpler to practice in daily life, such as brief check-ins, thought records, or behavioral experiments that a person can try between sessions.