Lisa Leibowitz, LCSW

Lisa Leibowitz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Connecticut. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, relationship and family concerns, career strain, grief, and issues that often appear during midlife transitions. Her style is warm and interactive, and she uses listening and coaching to help people make practical changes.

Lisa draws on ten years of clinical experience and blends straightforward strategies with mindfulness and emotion-regulation skills. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and build better coping habits. Motivational Interviewing is part of her approach when people are trying to make a change but feel stuck.

Sessions focus on real-life problems. Typical work includes managing stress, improving communication, addressing commitment or intimacy concerns, supporting parents with young adult challenges, and navigating workplace strain. She helps people develop routines that reduce overwhelm and create more balance in daily life.

Lisa treats relationships and family problems by helping individuals improve their communication and set clearer boundaries. She also supports people coping with grief and loss by combining practical coping tools with mindful practices to manage strong emotions.

Her practice emphasizes collaboration. Clients set goals and she offers techniques, coaching, and feedback to reach them. To begin, clients use the platform Start Therapy process to complete a short questionnaire and schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.

How these approaches work in online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead. The therapist reflects concerns, asks questions, and helps clients set their own goals so sessions feel relevant and manageable. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect; it teaches simple exercises to change unhelpful thinking patterns and to try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) adds skills for coping with intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, which can help with relationship struggles and strong stress responses.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with the client to decide which combination of these methods fits best for their goals, needs, and daily life. That plan can be adjusted over time based on what proves most helpful.

Confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not list formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow for focused, practical check-ins during a workday or evening. It can also let people practice new communication and coping skills in familiar routines, with the therapist providing coaching and homework that link sessions to everyday life.