Lisa Kuzman, LISW

Lisa Kuzman is a licensed independent social worker (LISW) with 17 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for people facing grief, trauma, anxiety, and life changes. She aims to treat each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.

Lisa uses a trauma-informed outlook and adapts conversations to fit each person's needs. She works in a down-to-earth way, helping people talk through grief, career challenges, and stress without jargon. Her approach includes coaching-style guidance for professional concerns and support for identity and self-esteem issues.

Her work also covers caregiver stress, chronic medical concerns such as cancer, aging and geriatric issues, and hospice and end-of-life counseling. She helps people manage the emotional side of co-morbid conditions and the practical fallout of medical illness. Lisa addresses isolation, guilt, shame, and post-traumatic stress with steady, paced support.

Therapy often blends mindfulness and body-aware (somatic) practices with solution-focused conversations. She uses client-centered techniques to make sessions about the client's goals, and motivational interviewing to help people find their own reasons to change. Sessions are collaborative and goal driven while honoring where someone is starting from.

Lisa practices in Iowa and brings years of clinical experience to each meeting. She invites people who are ready to consider change to start with a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.

Approach-driven online care that fits daily life

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on the person's own goals and priorities, giving space for the client to guide what matters most. This approach helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental place to sort feelings and make choices. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and calm anxiety, which can be useful for grief, stress, and ongoing health concerns. Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify their own reasons to change and build practical steps toward those goals; it is often used for career shifts, habit change, or managing treatment-related tasks.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That process can begin in the first sessions and adjust over time as progress is made.

Practical benefits of online therapy include easier scheduling and the ability to fit sessions into work or caregiving routines. If you need specific session formats, please confirm the available options before booking. Online sessions can make regular follow-up simpler and allow therapeutic work to continue during life transitions and medical treatment without rearranging as many in-person commitments.