Therapy
This isn’t your “sit on the couch and talk” kind of therapy. As a Somatic Experiencing® therapist, I bring a body-centered and holistic skillful way of listening to the verbal, energetic, and somatic “stories” within you. When space is created for such deep attention, shifts are free to happen that support healing and living with more resilience, ease, and joy.
People come to me who want to get unstuck, heal from past hurtful experiences, work with challenging symptoms, feel more resilient, and deepen their relationships. They want to feel at ease, nourished, and resourced as they go about their day. They want to feel better, deepen their capacity to be resilient in difficult times, and develop skills for navigating their life so they feel resilient and at ease with a more regulated nervous system and inner vibrancy.
You want to feel better. Now.
Maybe you feel anxious, overwhelmed, or stuck. You might be navigating loss, tension in your relationships, or the sense that something in you longs for more peace and vitality. Your mind may be always “on,” your body tired — and you know it’s time to have someone walk alongside you.
As an Integrative Psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, I blend science, mindfulness, and body-based healing to support your whole being. In our sessions, we often do less talking and more experiencing — gently guiding your nervous system toward relief, regulation, and resilience. Somatic Experiencing® helps release old patterns stored in the body so you can feel grounded, balanced, and fully alive.
You’ll learn to listen to your body’s wisdom, soften what’s been held for too long, and experience real shifts — in mind, body, and spirit.
At the heart of my work is creating a safe, inclusive, and affirming space where you are deeply welcomed “as you are.” I honor and support your authentic self in all its expressions — including your gender identity, orientation, spirituality, race, and abilities.
My areas of expertise include:
- anxiety
- depression
- stress
- trauma
- parenting
- LGBTQ
- spiritual direction
- loss, death, grief
- partnership
- mind-body-spirit well-being
Lisa, one session with you has shifted things within me more profoundly than has years of ‘talk therapy.’
Working with Lisa nurtures me in my own growth which allows me to nurture those around me. She is like a best friend who knows deeply who you are…
When I started working with Lisa, I truly felt like my life was falling apart. I was more overwhelmed than I’ve ever been and I was fearful for the future of my marriage and my children. I now feel like I am learning to love myself… I have real connection with myself and my family again.
How to Get Started
I offer a free 15-minute consultation call so potential clients can ask questions and get a sense of our work together before diving in. It gives me a chance to get to know you and learn how I can best support you, too, which I find leads to a strong first session. It's a great, low-risk way to get started.
What to Expect
In our first session, I begin to take a history, we have a conversation about what’s been going on and your hopes, we get a plan going for your healing, and we get started with an experience to support your resilience and regulation. This is your opportunity to see how a body-centered, neuroscience-based, “whole person” approach could FEEL like for you. Plan on the session being 50 minutes. When you leave, my hope is for you that you’ll have a sense of HOPE and “I’m not alone!” – with practical strategies that you can begin to weave into your everyday life so you start to feel better.
About Appointments
Contact me to schedule an appointment or to ask any questions you might have. I counsel clients virtually via Zoom as well as in-person in Middletown, MD. Together we decide how often and when we will meet based on our treatment goals. Sessions are about 50 minutes.
Cost
My rate: $200/50-minute session. I am an “in network” provider with CareFirst-BlueCross/BlueShield only. For all other insurances, as a licensed clinical social worker, my professional services qualify for patient-reimbursement under most insurance plans utilizing their out-of-network benefits (full session fees are due at each session, I give you paperwork to submit your claim to your insurance, and you get reimbursed for a portion of the session depending on your benefits). Please check with your insurance company for your coverage.
What my therapy clients have to say
Working with grief and anger that I never tapped into has been life-changing. There are layers that have dissolved…so gently. I am forever changed.
What used to trigger me, doesn’t anymore. I feel more confident and in control.
When I started working with Lisa, I truly felt like my life was falling apart. I was more overwhelmed than I’ve ever been and I was fearful for the future of my marriage and my children. I now feel like I am learning to love myself. I am figuring out what I need, how to communicate that and get that for myself, and I am hopefully moving toward creating a life that I want. I have real connection with myself and my family again. Most importantly, I think I am modeling for my teenage children the self-care that I want them to have as they move through life.
This work has been so gentle and yet so deep. It has deeply impacted my work as a psychotherapist and my presence with my clients and family.
I have the inner strength and stability to stand in my power and take care of myself with compassion.
Her unique blend of expertise, insight, spiritual perspective, compassion, peace and joy has helped me to move past obstacles in my career, my health, and my personal life. She has helped me grow and as a result I enjoy my life, my job, and my relationships more.
As a medical professional, I appreciate you talking to me through the lens of neuroscience. I am learning more about my own nervous system and how to settle. I have the tools to be resourced.
I continue to come back to your calming voice, your compassionate gaze sticks in my memory, you reminding me that it’s all welcome. Also, overtime I benefited from you seeing my partner as well. He comes home with less personal torment, more ease. We discuss the session and I see/feel that my partner has yet again, come back to his heart.
