- 30 years experience
- Panic and anxiety focus
- Practical coping skills
About Lisa
Lisa Pintel is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of practice in New York. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain, and major life changes. Many come because they want clearer coping tools and stronger self-worth.
She offers a calm, down-to-earth approach in sessions. Lisa helps people break problems into small, manageable steps. She teaches practical strategies for managing panic symptoms, reducing social anxiety, and handling parenting pressures.
Her work emphasizes building self-compassion and finding purpose. Lisa helps clients identify patterns that keep them stuck and tries new ways of responding. She also supports people who want to work on forgiveness and stronger self-love.
Therapy with her is collaborative and tailored to each person. She draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts them to what each client needs. Lisa aims to help people develop resilience and sustainable coping skills.
Over her career she has guided people through career shifts, relationship changes, and recovery from intense stress. Sessions focus on clear goals, step-by-step practice, and learning skills that fit into everyday life. This practical focus is intended to help people feel steadier and more in control.
Evidence-based approaches for anxiety and panic
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to help people manage anxiety and panic. Cognitive techniques focus on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small behavioral experiments to reduce worry and panic-driven avoidance. These methods aim to help people regain confidence in handling feared situations and bodily sensations.Behavioral strategies help clients face feared situations step by step. This can include gradual exposure to social situations or triggers for panic, paired with breathing and grounding tools to reduce intensity. The goal is steady practice that leads to fewer interruptions from anxiety in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, values, and comfort level. This means trying techniques, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan together.
Session formats are not listed in the provided biography, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, and allow focused check-ins between other responsibilities. Therapists can guide practical skill-building that you can use in everyday moments, helping translate session work into real-life changes.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
30+ years
Listed in
New York
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship strain, parenting pressures, and self-esteem difficulties. Additional focuses include forgiveness, life purpose, self-love, social anxiety and panic disorder and panic attacks.
What is the therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and practical. Sessions emphasize clear goals, step-by-step tools, and skills you can try between meetings.
How long has she been practicing?
She has practiced for 30 years, bringing long experience working with life transitions and anxiety-related concerns.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is an LCSW licensed in New York and provides services from that region.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify formats; please confirm current session options before booking.
How are sessions priced?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working together?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.