Dr. Lisa Cooney, LMFT

Dr. Lisa Cooney is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of clinical experience. She works with people who are struggling with stress and anxiety and with related concerns like trauma, addiction, depression, and relationship problems. She aims to make sessions approachable and supportive for people coming from many backgrounds, including LGBTQ+ experiences.

Her style is warm and practical. She focuses on helping people build emotional resilience and discover clearer ways to communicate. Sessions often look at how past patterns affect current choices and relationships, and she helps clients find small, doable changes that make daily life easier.

Dr. Cooney blends several therapy approaches to match each person’s needs. She uses Client-Centered methods to follow the client’s lead, psychodynamic ideas to understand repeating patterns, and EMDR when trauma memories are present. She also offers existential and hypnotherapy techniques when those fit a person’s goals.

Over her career she has supported people facing grief, chronic illness, eating and body image concerns, codependency, and family of origin issues. She pays attention to communication problems, commitment and control issues, and dissociation when these come up in therapy.

Dr. Cooney is licensed as an LMFT in California and Texas and practices from Texas. Sessions are conducted in English and she accepts international clients. To begin, readers are asked to use the site’s Start Therapy flow to match and schedule a visit.

How these approaches work online

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on following the client's lead and building a trusting conversation. It helps people who need emotional support, clearer self-understanding, and better communication skills. Psychodynamic Therapy looks at recurring life patterns and how past relationships shape present behavior, which can be useful for people wanting deeper insight into long-standing issues. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR, is used to reduce the intensity of distressing memories by working with how those memories are stored and processed.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose or combine methods based on goals, history, and what feels helpful. Sessions can shift over time as needs change, with the therapist explaining options and checking in on progress.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy week, cut travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes reaching a California- or Texas-licensed LMFT possible for people living elsewhere, since international clients are accepted. Discuss scheduling and session length when you match to find what fits your routine.