Navigate life’s inevitable losses, challenges, and changes with confidence and support. Together, we’ve got this.

Are you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or alone in your grief? Are you exhausted from the never-ending demands of caretaking?Are you coping with a new diagnosis, and wondering how it will impact your daily life? If so, you’re in the right place.

Loss is an inevitable part of the human experience. Loss can look like the death of a loved one, receiving a life altering medical diagnosis, a relationship ending, bearing witness to a loved one’s health declining, job loss, the list goes on. And yet, grieving and coping with a loss can feel SO isolating. We all deserve to have a space to process our emotions, grieve, and reconcile the life we knew from the life before us. Ultimately, grief and loss are about living - what happens when we love and live fully.

meet Lissy

I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) providing therapy to folks living in California and Colorado. I received my masters degree in Social Work from the University of Chicago, and I have been providing clinical services for over a decade. I am a Certified Advanced Grief Counseling Specialist, and I have supported individuals experiencing loss in my work in community mental health, schools, hospice, and homeless services. The key personality traits that translate into my clinical work my comfort in sitting with difficult situations, my sense of humor, my inherent curiosity, and my trust in the power of human relationships to help us heal, grow, and thrive.

I create an inviting and warm therapeutic space within which we can explore your current experience and set goals for treatment. Whether engaging in short-term therapy, coaching, or a long-term therapeutic relationship, my goal is that you feel empowered to bring vulnerability and honesty into the work. I believe that together, we can figure this out.

Specialty Areas

  • Grief & Loss

    grieving a death or experiencing a non-death loss, feeling stuck, stressed, anxious, overwhelmed, angry, or confused

  • Sandwich Generation

    coping with the stress and overwhelm of simultaneously caring for children as they grow and parents as they age

  • Medical Diagnosis

    navigating a new medical diagnosis, entering palliative care, adjusting to life with new limitations

feedback from clients:

"kind, welcoming, and friendly which made me feel comfortable to share what I have been struggling with. I felt hopeful leaving the appointment" "Lissy is easy to talk to and she was good about pulling out themes of areas that I could use help on based on what I was sharing. It helped to come up with a plan."

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"kind, welcoming, and friendly which made me feel comfortable to share what I have been struggling with. I felt hopeful leaving the appointment" "Lissy is easy to talk to and she was good about pulling out themes of areas that I could use help on based on what I was sharing. It helped to come up with a plan." 〰️