Lisa Beck, PhD

Hi! I am so glad you are exploring potential therapists for support with all you may be facing!

 

My name is Lisa, and I am Licensed Clinical Psychologist. As a therapist, I am deeply committed to knowing my clients in all the ways they exist and would like to be known. I work with individuals ranging from adolescents through older adults. I specialize in working with LGBTQIA+ individuals, including the provision of gender-affirming care and documentation. I also concentrate my work in trauma- informed and neuro-affirming approaches, identity work, and relationship issues.

 

I practice evidence-based treatment while also honoring cultural understandings that may have not yet been recognized in mainstream literature. My approach is best understood as integrative.

 

My first priority with each client is to collaboratively create a space and a therapeutic alliance that will allow clients to examine and approach their authentic selves and values. Within this client-centered framework, I strive to pay close attention to the client's unique sociocultural characteristics and background which inform their perspectives and affect their lived experiences. I largely draw from theoretical orientations which recognize the social construction, contextual factors, and subsequent experience of one's intersecting identities, such as:

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• Third-Wave Multicultural Feminist Therapy;

• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT);

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT);

• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT); and

• Narrative and Existential Approaches

 

These lenses combined with a strengths-based approach allow me to view client concerns and difficulties as adaptive rather than as pathological developments.

 

Often times clients may come to therapy knowing that they want something to be different, but the issue(s) may not be fully defined or doesn’t exactly match onto the jargon of psychotherapy – this is entirely normal and something we can navigate together. If we decide to work together, our space will be one of curiosity, collaboration, and clarity.