Dr. Lisa Cooney, LMFT
California · 25 years in practice
Dr. Lisa Cooney is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and trauma.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 38608 · expires November 2027
- LMFT, Texas
- 202793 · expires November 2027
- LMFT, Arizona
- LMFT-15914 · expires February 2027
- LMFT, District of Columbia
- LMFT200001276 · expires November 2027
- LMFT, Oregon
- T2334 · expires December 2026
- LMFT, New Jersey
- 37FI00217900 · expires June 2026
- NPI
- 1821256694 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 25
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Cooney is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 25 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and trauma. She creates a warm, affirming space where clients can speak honestly about difficult experiences and explore what matters to them most.
Her work focuses on strengthening how people relate to themselves and others. That can mean improving communication, sorting through attachment or codependency, or addressing body image and identity concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, cancer, or long-term pain as they manage emotional fallout. Dr. Cooney uses a mix of approaches shaped around each person’s needs, including systemic perspectives and client-centered practices.
Sessions are practical and conversational, with attention to day-to-day coping skills and clearer ways to handle conflict or overwhelming feelings. She also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning and direction, and on EMDR and hypnotherapy when past events or intense reactions are getting in the way.
These tools are used selectively and explained in straightforward terms so clients can choose what feels right. Based in Texas, Dr. Cooney brings steady clinical experience without jargon.
She works with people across a broad range of concerns, helping them build skills, make changes, and move forward at their own pace.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Lisa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
Approaches Lisa names
- Systemic Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches you might try in online sessions
Dr. Cooney often uses systemic ideas to look at how relationships and patterns affect daily life. This approach helps spot repeated interaction cycles and identify small changes that can shift how people handle conflict, communication, and role stress.She also practices client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely and following the client’s lead. That means sessions tend to be collaborative, with attention to what the person wants to change and how they want to move forward. Existential work is used when questions of meaning, purpose, or life direction are central concerns; it helps people reflect on values and make deliberate choices.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through options, try different techniques, and adapt methods based on the client’s goals and comfort level. Decisions about EMDR or hypnotherapy are made collaboratively and explained before they are used.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a work break or require less bandwidth, live chat works well for brief check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule regular work and stay consistent with progress.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar issues, addiction, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and communication problems, eating and body image concerns, anger, and LGBT-related matters.
How would you describe her therapeutic style?
Her style is conversational and focused on the person in front of her. She combines systemic thinking with client-centered and existential approaches to address day-to-day coping and deeper meaning.
What is her background and experience?
She has 25 years of clinical experience supporting people through complex life challenges and transitions.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with CA LMFT and TX LMFT credentials and is based in Texas.
In what language are sessions offered and are international clients possible?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
Which session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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