About Lisa
Lisa Kuzman is a licensed independent social worker who focuses on somatic-informed care and practical support. She brings 17 years of experience and works from a respectful, compassionate stance. She aims to make early steps feel manageable for people in crisis or transition.
She helps people cope with grief and loss and manage stress and anxiety. Career challenges, life changes, and questions about life purpose are part of her practice.
Background and approach
She also offers coaching for professionals navigating work pressures and decision points. Lisa uses a trauma-informed lens and adapts conversations to each person's needs. Sessions attend to the body as well as thoughts and feelings, and she combines that with straightforward problem-solving.
This approach is intended to help people feel steadier in day-to-day life. Her work includes support for those facing compassion fatigue, caregiving strain, and serious illness concerns like cancer or hospice planning. She also addresses self-esteem, body image, ADHD, and stress tied to money or midlife transitions.
The aim is practical coping and clearer choices. Lisa holds an LISW, license number IA LISW 006892, and practices in Iowa. She offers phone, video, chat, and text-based sessions.
If someone is ready to begin, she asks that they complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time to meet.
How somatic and conversational methods work online
Somatic Therapy in an online setting asks people to notice body sensations and movement as part of understanding stress and trauma. That can help with anxiety, post-traumatic stress, grief, and making everyday tasks feel less overwhelming. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so people feel heard and can decide on goals at their own pace. It helps when someone needs a calm space to sort priorities and feelings. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple present-moment practices to reduce reactivity and improve concentration, which can be useful for stress, compassion fatigue, and coping with change.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try different approaches, and adjust based on how helpful they feel. This collaboration aims to match practical skills with what the person prefers and needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people meet from home, fit sessions into busy days, and check in between meetings. Using multiple formats can make it easier to practice skills, follow up on homework, and keep momentum when life gets busy.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English