Lisa Carrillo, LMFT

Lisa Carrillo is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist who focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She works with individuals facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting challenges, and issues like jealousy and betrayal. Her style is straightforward and supportive for people taking the first steps to ask for help.

With 16 years of experience, Lisa draws on practical tools and conversations that clarify what matters most to each person. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and develop different habits. She also brings in psychodynamic ideas to notice patterns that repeat over time and solution-focused techniques to set clear, achievable goals.

In sessions she centers the client as the expert on their life while offering guidance and structure. Conversations are aimed at helping people identify strengths, try small changes, and measure what’s working. Lisa pays attention to the emotional side of problems as well as concrete steps clients can practice between meetings.

People often come for help with mood concerns, parenting strain, grief, intimacy-related issues, or coping with big life changes. She also supports those facing addiction, trauma and abuse, or problems with money and work. Lisa brings steady experience and a practical approach to everyday struggles.

Sessions are conducted in English from California. Prospective clients should confirm current session options and scheduling when they sign up to start therapy.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Lisa draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify thoughts and behaviors that get in the way, and to practice new ways of responding. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and behavior patterns that cause repeated stress.

She also uses psychodynamic ideas to notice recurring themes from past experiences that show up now. That approach helps people understand long-standing patterns and how they influence current relationships and feelings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa will collaborate with each person to balance short-term goals and deeper reflection, and to adjust methods based on what is most helpful for their needs and preferences.

Confirm the available session options before booking so you know how meetings will be scheduled. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Discuss scheduling and format preferences during the matching process to find arrangements that work for your routine.