Lisa Carnicelli, LMHC

Lisa Carnicelli is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship difficulties. Lisa emphasizes a warm, collaborative approach that centers the person's experience and goals.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside client-centered and emotionally-focused ideas to help people notice how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact. Sessions often include practical strategies to reduce anxiety, improve communication, and build coping skills. Lisa also draws on mindfulness and solution-focused techniques when they fit a person's needs.

Many people come with concerns such as parenting strain, grief, intimacy-related issues, or challenges after separation and divorce. She also supports those dealing with burnout, compassion fatigue, panic attacks, phobias, and seasonal mood shifts. Lisa pays attention to feelings of abandonment, guilt, shame, and loneliness and helps people move toward more self-compassion and connection.

Her work is conversational and goal-oriented. She helps people set small, achievable steps and practices to try between sessions. The emphasis is on clear tools and steady progress rather than long lists of theory.

Sessions can include shorter check-ins or deeper work depending on what a person needs that week. Lisa aims to create a dependable space where people can sort through immediate problems and build longer-term skills for resilience and healthier relationships.

How these approaches translate to online care

CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Online sessions can focus on concrete skills like breathing techniques, thought records, and behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety or lift mood.

Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and collaboration. In video or phone sessions, the therapist provides a supportive space where people can talk through feelings and identify their own solutions at their own pace.

Emotionally-focused ideas help people understand and shift patterns in close relationships. This work can include naming emotions, practicing new ways of connecting, and rehearsing conversations between sessions using text or chat for quick check-ins.

Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work together with each person to match methods to their goals, preferences, and current challenges. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and priorities change.

Online therapy offers flexibility across several formats: video calls for deeper conversations, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for brief focused exchanges, and text-based messaging for ongoing check-ins. These options help fit therapy into work, parenting, or other daily demands while supporting consistent progress.