https://www.mypathwayscounseling.com/about daily 0.75 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635588483cdd8572d15c4622/5d196936-693d-4c84-86c4-f4506dcb27a1/Lisa-About-Page-1.jpg About - About Me I will never forget my coffee with a dear mentor of mine in 2004. I was a young wife and mother of two pre-school boys. As we were discussing my journey, dreams, current wrestlings and joys, my mentor commented, “Lisa, you remind me of a bird who is so ready to fly, but cannot get out of its cage.” Immediately, my tears began to flow. I could not have agreed more. This conversation ignited in me an intentional journey on a pathway toward internal health and freedom. Life takes us down many paths. Some we choose, some choose us. Through it all, the search for meaning, identity, and worth impact how we navigate the paths we walk in this life and how we relate to the people walking with us. https://www.mypathwayscounseling.com/home daily 1.0 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635588483cdd8572d15c4622/d8847701-5935-44b0-9cc4-b5c6a2e61517/Lisa-About-Page-1.jpg Home - About Me I will never forget my coffee with a dear mentor of mine in 2004. I was a young wife and mother of two pre-school boys. As we were discussing my journey, dreams, current wrestlings and joys, my mentor commented on my life. “Lisa, you remind me of a bird who is so ready to fly, but cannot get out of its cage.” Immediately, my tears began to flow. I could not have agreed more. This conversation ignited in me an intentional journey on a pathway toward internal health and freedom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635588483cdd8572d15c4622/fd99b67c-13af-4886-abc2-2687b4b57356/Box-for-Children_Adolescents.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635588483cdd8572d15c4622/86e7e004-95f5-4544-8512-46f55ca3286e/Box-for-Women-5.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635588483cdd8572d15c4622/117ab55f-132b-45e8-81e0-973c11b286bc/Box-for-couples-1.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635588483cdd8572d15c4622/1669701596154-NGIB262G7FBM40NAD6VV/unsplash-image-eRqX7R-cCcQ.jpg Home https://www.mypathwayscounseling.com/services daily 0.75 2025-09-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635588483cdd8572d15c4622/0d3fbe5f-19db-4c60-92a2-0ac822b1cbb4/Box-for-Children_Adolescents.jpg Services - Children and Adolescent I hold two fundamental values: Children and adolescents are innately created to move toward health. A child knows what he or she needs even if he or she struggle to to articulate it. Providing an environment of clear communication, immediate positive feedback, and creativity empowers a child to articulate needs. My focused study of Synergetic Play Therapy ensures connection of neurobiology with the energy and emotions behind how a child experiences life through play, relationship, and educational exploration. I stay attuned to care of the nervous system and I model skills to help children grow in their capacity to self-regulate. Whether working in a therapeutic sand box, molding slime, or letting my client beat me in a strategic board game, children set us up to feel the way they feel. I am naturally attuned to obstacles: anxiety, fear of failure, sensory struggles, and attention disorders which can create barriers in academic, emotions and behavioral health. I have co-facilitated Adolescent Behavioral Therapy Groups, and Social Skills Groups for Elementary children, as well as Individual Therapy for children from ages 4 to 17. Growth and healing are experienced most in relationship with another; therefore, close communication and work with parents and educators are vital in my therapeutic process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635588483cdd8572d15c4622/3f67f482-fb74-4407-bc7e-e355ec10a72f/Box-for-Women-5.jpg Services - Individual Counseling may be for you if you are seeking to: Build a pathway out of depression Manage the impact of anxiety Improve relationships Process lingering pain, or trauma Process life transitions Seek meaning through grief and loss Move past this underlying feeling of being “stuck” Grow toward health in parenting skills Explore identity through life’s changes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/635588483cdd8572d15c4622/117ab55f-132b-45e8-81e0-973c11b286bc/Box-for-couples-1.jpg Services - Couples Counseling may be for you if you seek to: • Process unmet expectations/desires • Repair rifts and heal from emotional pain and trauma • Gain insight on the emotions you hold as you relate to you partner • Process loss and grief together • Learn to communicate in healthy and meaningful ways • Parent with attachment, the brain, and human development in mind • Empower connection in a distant relationship • Understand the person you married • Navigate anxiety in marriage • Pursue intimacy and connection amidst the craziness of raising kids • Overcome loneliness in the marriage relationship • Prepare for an upcoming wedding and marriage together We will work together to identify patterns, face fears, and experience authentic, healthy connection. https://www.mypathwayscounseling.com/values daily 0.75 2025-09-12 https://www.mypathwayscounseling.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-09-12 https://www.mypathwayscounseling.com/intensives daily 0.75 2023-01-03