- Trauma informed
- Goal focused
- Compassionate care
About Lisa
Lisa Kuzman is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing grief, career shifts, stress, anxiety, and trauma. She approaches work with respect, sensitivity, and compassion to help people move forward.
Lisa uses a trauma-informed perspective and adapts conversations and plans to each person's situation. She combines client-centered listening with methods that build short-term goals and present-moment awareness. That mix helps when someone needs clearer next steps or tools to manage overwhelm.
Her background includes executive and professional coaching alongside more traditional therapeutic work. This gives her experience in career-related transitions and role stress as well as life changes like loss and caregiving demands. She draws on 17 years of practice to shape realistic, paced plans for change.
Sessions typically focus on what matters most right now and on small, doable actions. Lisa pays attention to how emotions show up in the body and uses that to guide conversation and coping strategies. She also works on motivation and practical problem solving when clients want to move toward specific goals.
People seeking help for money and financial issues can bring those concerns into sessions as part of broader life or career work. Lisa encourages clear next steps, steady progress, and support while people make changes in difficult seasons.
How Lisa's Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead and helps clarify priorities, which suits concerns like grief, career changes, and self-esteem. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce anxiety and stress and to improve emotional awareness. Motivational interviewing helps people find their own reasons to change and supports practical steps, which is useful for career moves, financial behavior, or coping with life transitions.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lisa will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then suggest ways to combine methods. That collaboration helps shape sessions so they address both immediate coping and longer-term goals.
The original biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, avoid travel time, and attend short check-ins between appointments. It can also allow for different ways of working such as breathing or body-awareness exercises during a session and goal-focused planning that you can apply between meetings.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does Lisa commonly help with?
She helps people with trauma and abuse, grief, career changes, stress, anxiety, ADHD, and related issues such as caregiver stress, isolation, and money and financial issues.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her style blends client-centered listening with mindfulness, motivational interviewing, solution-focused work, and somatic awareness to create practical steps and present-moment coping.
How much experience does she have?
She has 17 years of professional work experience supporting people through life changes, grief, career concerns, and trauma-informed care.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds the LISW credential and practices in Iowa.
In which languages can sessions be held?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm current session options before booking.
How is cost handled for sessions?
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?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to the therapist's availability.