Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
How Lisa works
- Not listed
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC-MH
- Licensed in
- South Dakota
- Years in practice
- 26
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Lisa
Lisa Adler is a licensed professional counselor with a focus on practical, evidence-based techniques. She brings 26 years of clinical experience and a steady, straightforward approach to sessions. Lisa aims to help people facing stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and other life challenges.
Her work centers on listening first and building from a person's strengths. She treats each person as the expert in their own story and helps them find tools that fit their everyday life.
Background and approach
Sessions are direct and nonjudgmental, with clear goals and steps people can try between meetings. Lisa has supported people through grief, relationship strain, parenting stress, and coping with big life changes. She also addresses issues like addictions, sleep and eating struggles, trauma and abuse, and compassion fatigue.
Anger and self-esteem concerns are included among the everyday problems she helps people navigate. In practice Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to guide work toward achievable goals. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
Her office is located in South Dakota and sessions are held in English. Lisa strives for clear communication about progress and follow-up. She typically checks messages several times per day and asks for patience when responses take longer due to other professional responsibilities.
To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on availability.
What Lisa works with
Everything Lisa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Lisa's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Evidence-based techniques that work online
Lisa uses plain, evidence-based approaches in sessions to help people change behaviors and manage emotions. One commonly used method focuses on skill-building and practical strategies to reduce anxiety and manage anger; it teaches specific tools people can use in tense moments. Another approach emphasizes problem-solving and goal setting to address life changes, depression, or career and relationship stresses; it breaks larger problems into smaller steps that are easier to tackle.Finding the best approach is part of the work together. The therapist collaborates with each person to match methods to their needs, goals, and preferences. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most, so clients play an active role in choosing how they want to make changes.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when typing feels easier than speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain continuity across life changes.
Questions people ask about Lisa
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
She works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, anger, grief, relationship and parenting struggles, addictions, trauma, self-esteem, sleep and eating issues, and many life transitions.
What is the general therapy style and approach?
Sessions are straightforward and practical, focused on evidence-based techniques. The therapist listens first, sets clear goals, and suggests tools clients can try between sessions.
How much experience does the therapist have?
She has 26 years of professional experience working with people across many concerns and life stages.
What are the therapist's credentials and where are they located?
She holds the LPC-MH credential and practices in South Dakota.
Are sessions offered in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
Which session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps do I take to begin working together?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.