Dr. Lisa Karla has a wide-range of experience in Behavioral Health that spans over 12 years. Her therapeutic approach is integrative. She prefers psychodynamic and cognitive behavioral therapies. She has worked in psychiatric inpatient facilities, outpatient counseling for substance and drug abuse, vocational rehabilitation, psychosocial clubhouse, and inpatient medical with patients in Mother-Baby, Oncology, Emergency, Intensive Rehabilitation, Post-Acute Surgery, ICU, Trauma and Coronary Care Units. She has also maintained a private practice for 7 years counseling individuals and couples, spiritual counseling and alcohol abuse counseling. She also enjoys performing court-mandated substance abuse assessments, conducting research, public speaking, instructing and writing articles.
What can clients expect to take away from sessions with you?
Be ready to work hard on YOU and have a journal ready! Let's roll up our sleeves and get to it!
Explain to clients what areas you feel are your biggest strengths.
I've been told that I have the ability to make difficult principles and concepts palpable, easy to grasp and colorful to remember!
Describe the client(s) you are best positioned to serve.
Brave One: Coming to therapy is a courageous effort, especially if it goes against your cultural, familial or religious beliefs. My initial job in the therapeutic journey is to create a therapeutic alliance that affirms you reached out at the right time, hope is possible and you can exhale! This journey we take together won't always be easy, However, knowing you can speak with someone who isn't fixated on fitting you into a mold of some kind of diagnostic criteria; but is more interested in your personal goals - and path to wellness, makes it all worthwhile! My job is to help you become a better YOU...through the renewing of your mind!
About Dr. Lisa Karla
Dr. Lisa Karla offers therapy covered by Medicaid - Peach State Health Plan and Peach State Health Plan (Managed Medicaid) in Georgia.
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Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a widely used approach in therapy that helps individuals challenge their thought processes to align with the goals they want to achieve. This often means that the client has to learn new ways of thinking about the situation at hand by restructuring their thoughts, leading to new behaviors, that are more aligned with goal achievement.
Christian Counseling
Incorporating faith in the practice of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is known as Christian Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CCBT). This therapeutic approach is similar to CBT. However it incorportes the b tenets of the Christian faith to align not only their goals but their lives with a Biblical worldview. Surprisingly, this has been a very successful approach even with those who do not claim to be Christian. Christian Counseling is largely based on having a Biblical worldview as a lens in which the therapist understands the existential questions and dilemmas of mankind. The client is being helped through the perspective of morality, compassion, values, ethics and faith as detailed in the Bible.