About Lisa
Lisa Hilton is a licensed social worker with 20 years of practice in Michigan. She offers a calm, down-to-earth style and focuses on how the body and emotions connect when stress, grief, or trauma are present. People come to her for help with anxiety, depression, relationship struggles, and big life changes.
Her work blends somatic ideas with attachment-based and client-centered methods. Sessions often include talking through what’s happening and noticing how feelings show up in the body.
Background and approach
She teaches practical skills for managing intense emotions and improving day-to-day coping. Lisa has helped people facing chronic pain, caregiving stress, and major illness alongside typical mental health concerns. She also gives support around parenting pressure, intimacy issues, and workplace stress.
Her background includes long-term experience with trauma, dissociation, and mood differences such as bipolar symptoms. Clients find the pace is collaborative and respectful. The therapist focuses on small, usable steps that fit a person’s life.
Therapy aims to reduce overwhelm and build clearer patterns in relationships and self-care. Sessions are offered in English and can include video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Lisa holds an LMSW, Michigan license number MI LMSW 6801092158, and works with people who want steady, practical help for emotional and bodily distress.
Approach and online care that notice body and attachment
Somatic work pays attention to physical sensations alongside emotions. It helps when stress or trauma feels stuck in the body and can make anxiety or sleep problems worse. Attachment-based therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape responses to stress and closeness, which can make communication and intimacy clearer. Client-centered therapy focuses on creating a respectful space where the person’s own goals and pace guide the work.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. Together they try approaches and adjust them to fit daily life and circumstances.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Those options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or health challenges. For many people, having different formats available means they can use short check-ins, longer sessions, or written check-ins depending on what feels most useful.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English