Lisa Hilton, LMSW

Michigan · 20 years in practice

Lisa Hilton is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people sort through hard emotions and life changes.

License and registration

LMSW, Michigan: 6801092158 · expires October 2027
NPI: 1134454598 · national provider identifier
Years in practice: 20
Languages: English

Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.

About Lisa

Lisa Hilton is a Licensed Master Social Worker with 20 years of experience helping people sort through hard emotions and life changes. She uses a warm, person-focused style to guide clients dealing with anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship strain. Her practice centers on Emotionally-Focused Therapy alongside attachment-based and client-centered approaches.

That means she pays attention to how emotions shape reactions, and she helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck.

Background and approach

Sessions focus on clear steps people can try between meetings. She also draws on cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior ideas when needed. Those tools help with managing intense emotions, changing unhelpful thinking, and building practical coping skills.

The work often pairs insight with small, doable behavior changes. Lisa has guided people through trauma, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and complicated grief. She helps clients working on intimacy issues, self-esteem, career stress, and parenting strain.

She pays attention to attachment and how early relationships affect current patterns. Sessions are offered in English and include phone, video, chat, or text-based messaging options. She accepts clients in Michigan and international clients, and she meets people where they are in the process.

The goal is steady, realistic progress rather than quick fixes.

Focus areas and approaches

Everything Lisa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.

Stress, Anxiety
Relationship issues
Trauma and abuse
Grief
Depression
Family conflicts
Intimacy-related issues
Sleeping disorders
Parenting issues
Anger management
Self esteem
Career difficulties
Bipolar disorder
Coping with life changes
Coaching
Compassion fatigue
Abandonment
Aging and geriatric issues
Attachment issues
Avoidant personality
Blended family issues
Body image
Cancer
Caregiver issues and stress
Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Co-morbidity
Codependency
Communication problems
Control issues
Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
Dissociation
Divorce and separation
Eating and food-related issues
Emptiness
Family of origin issues
Family problems
Fertility issues
First responder issues
Forgiveness
Guilt and shame
Hoarding
Impulsivity
Infidelity
Isolation / loneliness
Jealousy
Life purpose
Midlife crisis
Mood disorders
Narcissism
Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
Panic disorder and panic attacks
Personality disorders
Post-traumatic stress
Pregnancy and childbirth
Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-harm
Self-love
Sexuality
Social anxiety and phobia
Women's issues
Workplace issues
Young adult issues

Approaches Lisa names

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Online support

Emotion and Attachment Work Online

Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on identifying and responding to core emotions. It helps people notice what feelings trigger behaviors and teaches ways to shift unhelpful patterns that affect relationships and personal well-being.

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current connections and reactions. It supports people in recognizing attachment patterns and developing more supported ways of relating and coping.

Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, try different methods, and adjust the plan as needs change. Clients and the therapist collaborate to pick strategies that feel useful and realistic.

Online sessions are offered by phone, video calls, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls let people work face to face, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help fit therapy into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or travel without losing continuity of care.

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Questions people ask

What kinds of concerns does Lisa help with?

She supports people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, burnout and many related challenges.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her approach is emotionally focused and client-centered, with practical elements from CBT and DBT to manage difficult feelings and change unhelpful patterns.

What background and experience does she bring?

Lisa holds a MI LMSW and has two decades of clinical experience working with adults on emotional, relational, and life-transition concerns.

Where is she located and licensed?

She is licensed in Michigan and provides services to people in that state and to international clients as noted.

Which languages are offered for sessions?

Sessions are offered in English.

What session formats are available?

She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.

How does pricing and payment work?

Cost varies with location and therapist arrangements; sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.

How do I begin working with her?

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