Lisa DeLuca emphasizes that no concern is too large or too small to bring into therapy. She notes that replaying problems internally can leave people feeling isolated and stuck, and that therapeutic interaction often creates the movement needed to shift those patterns.

In her psychotherapy practice in eastern Suffolk County, New York, Lisa works with parents, teenagers, couples, families and older adults. Her work centers on goals such as healing, clarity, self-empowerment, improved effectiveness in life, work and relationships, and fostering a more authentic, heart-felt expression of the self. She also supports clients in exploring and articulating their unique purpose.

Lisa approaches clients from a strengths perspective – believing that the resources a person needs are already present – and she maintains that it is never too late to gain the clarity and life individuals seek. Her clinical areas of expertise include teenage issues and parenting teens; marriage counseling and relationship and communication coaching (which can be done effectively with only one member of the relationship present); anxiety and depression; self-empowerment, self-esteem and identity expression; stress management and mindfulness; end-of-life and eldercare concerns; family caregiver burnout; grief and issues related to dementia; and spirituality and the search for meaning.

She earned a Master’s in Social Work from SUNY Stony Brook in 1996 and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Fordham University in 1984, and she completed post-graduate training in Bowen’s Family Systems Therapy. Lisa is a licensed clinical social worker in New York, registered as an LCSW-R with license number 082470, and she has 10 years of professional experience providing therapy services.