LPC, 15 years of experience
Dr. Lisa Karla has a wide-range of experience in Behavioral Health that spans 15 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 addiction, vocational rehabilitation, psychosocial clubhouse, and inpatient medical bedside counseling (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, marital, pre-marital and spiritual counseling. She also performs court-mandated substance/alcohol abuse assessments. She enjoys writing, conducting research, public speaking, instructing and illustrating.
Be ready to work hard on YOU and have a journal ready! Let's roll up our sleeves and get to it!
I've been told that I have the ability to make difficult principles and concepts palpable, easy to grasp and colorful to remember!
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!
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.
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.
5 ratings with written reviews
July 22, 2025
Dr. Karla is a great listener. She gives really good feedback and helps me look at things from a different perspective. I’m really glad we connected.
July 1, 2025
My first session was great, she was easy to talk to and guided me in the right direction to articulate my feelings correctly.
June 30, 2025
Dr. Karla was attentive, direct and has a warm spirit. I'm looking forward to our next session.