Embodied Heart Mind

Lissa is a psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner (DNP, PMHNP-BC), somatic psychotherapist, and mindful movement (yoga, qigong, pilates, etc.) and meditation teacher. Lissa provides mindfulness-based and mind-body centered psychotherapy, medication monitoring, and integrative and holistic care.

Lissa specializes in anxiety, depression, mood, shame, grief, difficulties with life transitions, and trauma including acute, complex, identity-based and intergenerational trauma.

Lissa works collaboratively with each client to find a supportive approach, and may incorporate the following into sessions: somatic trauma therapy approaches including Indigenous focusing-oriented therapy (IFOT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Somatic Experiencing, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy as well as Compassion-Focused Therapy, medication management (utilizing the lowest medication dose possible), mindfulness meditation including Buddhist meditation, mindfulness movement, somatic-based interventions, and nutrition and lifestyle recommendations.

Developing a positive therapeutic relationship with clients is very important. It is Lissa’s goal to provide a non-judgmental, compassionate approach that allows clients to feel safe. Lissa provides inclusive, culturally responsive, and social-justice oriented therapeutic approaches.

All are welcome including those who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), queer, trans, gender queer, gender non-conforming, and non-binary. Those with visible and invisible disabilities are welcome. Those who are empaths, artists, and highly sensitive are welcome. Come as you are.