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Dr. Lisa Karla

Dr. Lisa Karla

LPC
13 years of experience
Virtual

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!

About Dr. Lisa Karla

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My treatment methods

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.