Counseling

Lisa Pedersen, LCSW (Licensed Clinical Social Worker), has maintained a private practice for individuals and couples since 1996. Whether you're feeling depressed, anxious or needing help adjusting to a new situation, Lisa is committed to working with you to help you understand your situation, and to develop coping skills to help you lead a happy, healthy life.

Integrative Body Psychotherapy

In addition to being a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Lisa is a certified practitioner of Integrative Body Psychotherapy (IBP).  IBP is a very powerful mind-body system of therapy that can awaken the body and heighten its aliveness. IBP techniques allows individuals to enjoy the moment by experiencing life with all five senses. People who live in the past or present develop the unhealthy mental habits of regret or worry.

With IBP techniques, you will develop healthy boundaries, feel more present, grounded and able to sustain good feelings about yourself and about others. Instead of staying in the "head" or "intellectual side" of living, you will connect what you're feeling in your body to the assumptions/thoughts in your head, ultimately providing a sense of well-being and constancy. The best part of IBP is that you can become your own therapist by learning highly specific body-mind skill practices to unleash outworn beliefs and behavior patterns. You will learn ways to breathe and your body's ways of interrupting this process.

Call 310.372.8400 to schedule your counseling or IBP session.

"Sometimes we have the opportunity to provide our care for families who already have a priority on providing whatever it takes to have the health and body performance they are designed to have. Lisa Pedersen is one of those people, and part of one of those families. In working with Lisa from my chiropractic and natural health perspective, I have found that her areas of expertise in Pilates strength training, Pregnancy Yoga, and psychotherapy provide key components to the whole-health picture. She has an excellent understanding of the integration of the body's systems for function and health, in pregnancy, and for the adult. I am always confident in referring people whom I care for to Lisa. I know she will be aware of meeting the needs of their body where they are at, and building, healing, and strengthening from there. Basically, her philosophy of function, health, and life for the body is right-on."

Dominique M. Scott, D.C., Chiropractic Doctor