Lisa Draper

Lisa Draper is a licensed professional counselor who aims to help people who feel stuck by listening first and walking beside them. She brings a straightforward, steady presence and focuses on making therapy practical and understandable. Her background includes military service and years in emergency services, which shape how she connects with people facing intense stress and trauma.

Lisa uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy when past events are causing ongoing distress. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered and Cognitive Behavioral techniques to help people notice thoughts, choose values-based actions, and practice new skills.

Her experience includes work with adults affected by substance use concerns, often alongside depression, anxiety, or traumatic histories. She also supports people coping with grief, caregiving stress, chronic illness, relationship struggles, anger, sleep problems, and life transitions. Lisa describes therapy as a journey she takes with clients rather than directing them from ahead or pushing from behind.

Clients can expect a collaborative, down-to-earth approach. Sessions tend to focus on real-life steps, such as building routines, practicing coping skills, and making choices that reflect what matters most. Lisa draws on her lived experience in military and emergency roles to offer empathy for people who have faced intense situations.

She works in Michigan and offers services in English. People who want to begin are invited to use the site’s Start Therapy button to complete a short questionnaire and schedule according to availability.

How therapy approaches shape online work

Trauma-Focused Therapy focuses on addressing the ways past events continue to affect daily life. It often involves gently processing memories and building skills to reduce distress when reminders appear. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That might mean combining elements from Trauma-Focused Therapy and ACT, or using cognitive behavioral tools to practice new behaviors between sessions.

The biography does not specify which session formats are offered, so confirm available options before booking. Many people find online sessions helpful because they make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Therapists can guide skill practice, paced processing of difficult memories, and value-based goal setting in remote sessions, adapting techniques to each person’s circumstances rather than promising a specific format.