About
Lisa received her master's degree in Expressive Therapy with a specialization in mental health counseling and art therapy from Lesley University in 2004. She has worked with children, adolescents, and adults across the spectrum of wellness.
Lisa's current practice targets adults seeking help with stress, anxiety, and/or self-judgement and that have an interest in learning new skills and a willingness to using new approaches. Also those who could benefit from additional non-verbal approaches to addressing grief/loss, managing midlife and quarter life crisis, forming a better balance of logic and emotions, and/or with further developing a sense of self and one's needs. |
Growing up, Lisa’s interest and experience with art taught her about authentic expression, spontaneity, and creative problem-solving. She was equally drawn to science and a world that could be explained by numbers and equations. She initially questioned the idea of therapy and talking about feelings, but it was her curiosity about how things work that ultimately led her to appreciate the field of psychology.
Today, she layers the creative process on top of a scientific foundation to help clients understand how their nervous system connects to their behaviors, thoughts, and body sensations. Lisa approaches a therapeutic relationship with a focus on listening compassionately and gaining understanding. Through building trust and rapport, she engages clients in an integrative approach of talk, mindfulness, breathing, creative arts, and somatic and self-compassion-based work. Lisa hopes to provide a safe and inclusive space that is supportive of all identities and which is culturally affirming. She believes as a therapist she has a responsibility to continue to understand her own potential biases and to engage in activism and anti-racism work. Additionally, Lisa sees the importance in sessions of addressing cultural context and societal messaging that may be impacting the way the client views themselves and their potential. She has experience working in trauma treatment centers, including at the VA, and most recently worked in a integrative health clinic where she supported patients with issues of medical challenges and chronic illnesses, being stuck in unhelpful patterns, and with experiencing a life crisis-calling into question career, purpose, and meaning. Lisa also began seeing patients via telemental health to provide treatment to those suffering, grieving, overwhelmed, and fearful during the COVID-19 pandemic. Lisa strongly believes that creativity and art therapy can help strengthen the link between brain and body, leading to an improved sense of wellness and supporting the learning of life skills in a way that many could not have imagined for themselves. NEWS interviews featuring Lisa San Francisco Chronicle "Bay Area Teens Stuck Inside Grappling with New Kind of Fear of Missing Out. July 20, 2020 www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-teens-stuck-inside-grappling-with-new-15419305.php CBS San Francisco Bay Area "Parenting Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic" https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/4658201-parenting-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic/ |
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Copyright ©2019 Lisa Giovannetti. All Rights Reserved.