Lisa Lipari, LCAT

If you are ready to uncover what’s been avoided to work through patterns that keep repeating—not only manage or cope—I invite you into a deeper, ongoing, felt process. I practice within a psychodynamic, relational frame that is depth-oriented with a trauma-informed lens to address a variety of reasons that could be bringing you to therapy. Through engaging with and exploring your lived experience, we pay attention to relationships, what’s been internalized, adapted, and not fully yours. Together, we recognize patterns, develop new perspectives, and experience a deeper, felt understanding for meaningful change.

Creating starts with the body and senses, accessing implicit memory—felt experience words cannot easily reach. What you might create in session becomes a means to access parts of the self, hard to reach with words alone. How we explore the process and the content of what you create can increase your ability to identify and work through what brought you here.

Incorporating art therapy in session is an option in your treatment we will discuss and is not a requirement for us to work together. Whether we incorporate an experiential modality like art therapy or keep the process conversational, I look forward to working with you!

Lisa is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT), Registered-Board Certified Art Therapist (ATR-BC) with ongoing advanced training in contemporary psychoanalysis through The Institute for Expressive Analysis. She graduated from Hofstra University with her Masters in Creative Arts Therapy in 2016. She has been providing psychotheraputic services for over 10 years, largely practicing in hospital and jail settings, working with serious and persistent mental illness, complex trauma, substance use, various forms of grief, anxiety, and depression with adults and adolescents.