Lisset Pickens, LPC

Lisset Pickens is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with 15 years of experience helping people through relationship and family struggles. She works with individuals facing parenting challenges, career stress, low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Her tone is respectful and compassionate, and she aims to make the first step feel manageable for someone who is nervous about starting therapy.

With a practical approach, she tailors conversations and plans to each person's situation. Sessions focus on clear goals, realistic steps, and skills that people can try between meetings. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and she also draws on client-centered methods to keep the work grounded in what matters most to the client.

Her practice includes attention to attachment and intimacy issues, blended family dynamics, caregiving stress, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with divorce or separation, fertility and fatherhood concerns, and feelings of emptiness or dependent personality traits. Coaching-style work can help with motivation and career decisions.

People describe therapy with her as straightforward and focused on practical change. She emphasizes collaboration and respects each person's pace. Her experience across a range of family and relationship topics helps when problems overlap or bring multiple stressors.

Sessions are offered in English and she accepts international clients. Prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire to begin and then schedule sessions based on availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on building a trusting working relationship and following what matters to the client. In practice this means the therapist listens carefully, reflects what she hears, and helps people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets patterns of thought and behavior that contribute to distress; sessions include practicing skills, setting small goals, and reviewing progress between meetings. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at emotional experience and connection, which can help with intimacy and attachment concerns by naming feelings and changing interaction patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. She will talk with each person about goals, past efforts, and preferences. Together they decide whether CBT, client-centered work, EFT, or a mix best fits the situation, and the plan is adjusted as needs evolve.

Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited, and chat or messaging can work for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep consistent progress.