Lisa Draper, LPC

Lisa Draper is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Michigan with seven years of clinical experience. She draws on prior service in the U.S. Army and years working in emergency services and corrections to understand high-stress careers and trauma-related concerns. Lisa focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, and coping with life changes among other concerns including blended family issues.

Clients can expect straightforward discussion and practical steps. Sessions address daily coping, sleep problems, anger, and self-esteem struggles. Lisa also works with people facing grief, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and the overlap of mental health and substance use. She uses common interventions from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to help people change patterns that feel stuck.

Her background includes military service, frontline emergency work, and corrections experience, which inform how she listens and what she notices about stress responses. Lisa spent several years supporting adults with substance use disorder alongside co-occurring depression, anxiety, and trauma. That work shaped a problem-solving style that looks for manageable changes rather than quick fixes.

In sessions she aims to be a steady presence rather than a director. Conversations typically involve exploring what matters to the person, identifying steps that fit their life, and practicing skills between meetings. She may use acceptance and commitment ideas, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral techniques, EMDR elements, and mindfulness practices depending on need.

People interested in working on blended household concerns, co-parenting stress, or veteran and first responder issues will find background experience relevant to those pressures. To begin, readers should confirm the current session options and scheduling details before booking.