- Years in practice
- 25
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- Relationship issues
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
About Lisa
Lisa Rosario is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 25 years of experience based in New York. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and brings a practical, down-to-earth approach to sessions. Parents often seek her out for help with stress, parenting concerns, or relationship strain.
Her work begins with a simple conversation to understand what brought someone in. She asks about current struggles, history, and daily life. Lisa then explores relationships, strengths, and goals to shape a plan together.
Background and approach
She uses a mix of approaches that match the person and the problem. That can mean learning new ways to handle anxiety, trying small behavior changes, or practicing emotional communication skills. She explains steps clearly so parents can try them between sessions.
Lisa has experience across many concerns that parents often face, including grief, depression, trauma, ADHD symptoms, body image, and caregiving stress. She also supports people navigating adoption and blended family issues, commitment or intimacy worries, and workplace or career strain. In sessions she keeps language direct and practical.
She invites questions and focuses on realistic goals you can notice week to week. If the plan feels off, she adjusts it with you. Her aim is to help parents find manageable changes that fit their life.
Outside clinical work she teaches social work at the college level and is pursuing doctoral study. That mix of practice and teaching informs how she shares techniques and explains ideas in simple terms.
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
- LGBT
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lisa lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapy approaches translate to online work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice their thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It can help with stress, anxiety, and parenting choices by teaching short exercises to shift attention and commitment to what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches small experiments and skills to change unhelpful patterns. It is useful for anxiety, mood, and behavior changes that parents want to see quickly. Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, helps people name and bring forward emotions in relationships so they can improve connection and communication during conflict.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your goals, what has or hasn’t worked before, and your daily routine. Then she will suggest one or a blend of methods and revise them with you as you try techniques and report back on what fits and what does not.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give options that fit busy family life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations for skills practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports shorter check-ins or ongoing coaching. These formats make it easier to schedule sessions around school, work, or caregiving commitments and to use therapy tools in real time.
Questions people ask about Lisa
What concerns does she address?
Lisa works with a wide range of concerns including stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, eating and body image, ADHD symptoms, and parenting challenges.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is conversational and direct. She combines practical skills, emotional work, and goal-setting so clients can try changes between sessions.
How much experience does she have?
She has 25 years of clinical experience and also teaches social work at the college level, which influences her use of clear explanations and practical tools.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, credentialed as NY LCSW, and practices in New York.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are offered?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are provided through a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I get started?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule according to therapist availability.
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