- Years in practice
- 20
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Lisa
Lisa Hilton brings a practical, client-centered style to therapy that focuses on real-life results. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. Her work often centers on relationship and intimacy concerns and on parenting-related struggles that affect day-to-day life.
Lisa uses straightforward talk and listening to learn what matters most to each person. Sessions focus on building coping skills, improving communication, and testing simple strategies between meetings.
Background and approach
She draws on cognitive behavioral techniques and attachment-based ideas to help people understand thoughts, reactions, and emotional patterns. Her practice also incorporates emotion-focused work and skills from dialectical behavior approaches when intense feelings, trauma, or mood instability are involved. That mix lets her match methods to the problem at hand instead of relying on one fixed style.
The goal is clearer thinking and steadier behavior rather than just more insight. Clients often seek support for depression, sleep problems, anger, low self-esteem, and career stress. She also addresses caregiving strain, chronic illness challenges, and issues tied to abandonment or attachment wounds.
Sessions aim to leave people with tools they can use right away. Lisa offers flexible remote formats including video, phone, live chat, and text messaging. She works with people in Michigan and accepts international clients, and she explains the onboarding and subscription process at the first visit.
What Lisa works with
Everything Lisa lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Lisa helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lisa lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Therapeutic approaches for online support
Lisa often uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early bonds shape current relationship patterns. That approach helps people understand connection, trust, and repeating interaction cycles that affect intimacy and parenting.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and practical coping strategies that you can practice between sessions.
Finding the best approach is a team effort. Lisa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they try methods for several sessions and adjust the plan based on what feels most useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you work face to face on communication and emotional work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and let people choose the way that works best for them.
Questions people ask about Lisa
What kinds of concerns does Lisa address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, sleep problems, anger, self-esteem, career stress, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is client-centered and practical, focusing on listening, building coping skills, improving communication, and applying techniques between sessions.
What is her professional background?
Lisa has 20 years of clinical experience working with adults on a wide range of emotional and life issues.
What credentials and location are listed for her?
She is a Licensed Master Social Worker, MI LMSW, based in Michigan.
Which languages does she offer sessions in?
Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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