Lisa Belshaw
Insightful care for stress and recovery
LCSW New Jersey
- Experience
- 13 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Relationship
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Lisa
Lisa Belshaw is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in New Jersey who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors while rebuilding self-esteem and relationship skills.
Background and approach
She draws on a compassionate, client-centered stance that prioritizes each person's strengths and preferences, guiding them through practical steps toward greater motivation, communication, and self-love. With 13 years of professional experience, she combines evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices alongside narrative and motivational strategies to tailor sessions to individual needs.
Lisa aims to create an environment where clients feel heard and empowered to explore challenges, clarify goals, and practice new coping skills. Her work emphasizes collaboration, resilience-building, and attainable progress rather than quick fixes.
Clients can expect a thoughtful, strengths-based process that attends to both emotional patterns and everyday behaviors. Lisa helps people identify unhelpful thoughts, experiment with small changes, and strengthen interpersonal confidence so they can pursue a more balanced, fulfilling life.
Therapeutic Approaches and Online Options
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, teaching practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change patterns that fuel stress or addictive urges. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the client's perspectives and goals guide the work, which can help people feel understood and gain confidence to make changes. Mindfulness Therapy encourages present-moment awareness and skills for tolerating difficult emotions, often reducing reactivity and improving emotional regulation.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process, and Lisa works collaboratively with clients to determine which methods suit their needs, goals, and preferences. Together they review what’s working, adjust strategies, and set achievable steps so therapy remains practical and personally meaningful.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to access support from home or other convenient locations. These options allow for continued momentum between meetings and provide multiple ways to connect when in-person visits are not possible.
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
13+ years
Licensed
New Jersey
Languages
English