Lisa Tomala

Lisa Tomala is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a National Certified Counselor with a B.A. in Psychology from George Mason University and an M.S. in Professional Counseling from Grand Canyon University. Over a twenty year career she has worked with active-duty service members experiencing PTSD, and with teens and adults facing depression, anxiety, trauma, life transitions, substance use concerns, and grief. She draws on that clinical breadth when assessing presenting symptoms and planning treatment.

Her practice uses an eclectic set of methods, including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused approaches. She pays attention to early experiences that shape behavior and helps people reframe patterns and build new ways of responding. She moves at each person’s pace and balances attention to both current symptoms and longer term meaning-making.

Having navigated her own grief, she offers understanding to those working through loss. For people who wish to integrate religious ideas, she can incorporate principles of Thomistic philosophy. Outside of practice she spends time with family and an Australian Cattle dog, and she enjoys painting and hiking.