Lisa Carnicelli

Lisa Carnicelli is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and other life challenges. Lisa works with individuals who want practical tools and steady support as they navigate change.

Her background includes work in nonprofit agencies, private practice, higher education, and community settings. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, along with mindfulness and solution-focused ideas, to shape sessions around each person's goals. Lisa aims to help clients notice unhelpful patterns and try small, manageable changes.

Sessions tend to be warm and collaborative. Lisa listens first and then helps clients set clear, realistic goals. She uses straightforward strategies for coping, communication, and emotion management rather than jargon or abstract plans.

Lisa also supports people with trauma and abuse histories, grief, parenting stresses, intimacy concerns, career transitions, and issues related to identity and relationships. She pays attention to how feelings like shame, abandonment, or isolation affect daily life and decision making.

People who prefer a practical, compassionate approach may find her style a good fit. She helps clients build confidence, cope with panic or mood shifts, and create better patterns in relationships and self-care.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. In practice this means the therapist offers empathy, reflection, and support while the client leads much of the conversation. It helps when someone wants a respectful space to make sense of feelings and decisions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Sessions often include practical exercises and homework to test new ways of thinking and behaving, which can help with anxiety, panic, depression, and patterns that get in the way of daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, comfort level, and pace. That may mean mixing listening-based work with CBT tools and mindfulness practices over time.

Check the session format before booking to confirm current options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, save travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. It also makes it possible to continue therapy through life transitions and busy seasons without losing momentum.