ONLINE THERAPY FOR HIGH-FUNCTIONING WOMEN IN UTAH
Helping women who take care of everyone else reconnect with themselves.
You handle a constant, invisible list of responsibilities—things everyone assumes you'll handle, without even needing to ask.
You're the one who smooths over tension at work, picks up extra tasks, remembers the holidays, the birthdays, the appointments, the deadlines. You take on everything that keeps life running for the people around you.
You say yes without hesitating, because you don't want to let anyone down and saying no doesn't feel like an option. Being helpful is how you prove your worth.
You’re always trying to be thoughtful—making things easier for everyone else and making sure no one ever has to feel burdened, uncomfortable, or uncertain because of you.
When you're overwhelmed, you still try to keep it together: reliable, consistent, composed. But recently, you're dropping texts, forgetting things, snapping at people you love. You tell yourself things would get better if you could just try harder. But deep down, you know you're running on fumes.
Even in your closest relationships, you feel a disconnect. You're generous with your time, careful with your words, always anticipating what others need, but it doesn't feel mutual. You give all that you can and still end up feeling unseen or quietly resentful.
Lately you feel flat. You go through the motions, say the right things, but you don't feel present. Distant, even from yourself. You're doing everything you were raised to believe makes someone good, dependable, worthy. You should feel fulfilled. Instead, you've hit the end of the script, and you can already feel how unsustainable this pace really is.
Hi, I’m Lisa
Therapy isn’t about pushing harder, doing more, or fixing what’s “wrong” with you.
I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist in Utah who works with women who take care of everyone else and are privately exhausted, anxious, and burned out.
Over the past eight years, I've helped clients work through all kinds of challenges—but the ones who've always stayed with me are women like you: thoughtful, capable, and constantly overextending themselves. The ones who are outwardly managing but quietly burning out.
I'm also a stepparent, so the invisible load isn't abstract to me. I know what it feels like to have every moment of my time spoken for and to still feel like I can't do enough. And I've done my own work around identity: figuring out who you actually are when the version of yourself you built for everyone else stops working.
Most therapy stays week to week. You bring in what happened, you talk it through, you come back and do it again. It can help, and it can also feel siloed — every session its own island, the same themes cycling without ever quite connecting.
I listen for the through-line. When you bring in something you think is separate, I'm tracking what else it connects to. Those are the same words you used to describe your mother three weeks ago. Do those two situations feel connected to you?
When fifteen problems turn out to be different versions of the same few, two things happen. It gets clearer what you actually need to do. And the cost finally gets tallied up — the argument, the meltdown, the expectations at work you've been drowning under for months. When the cost is finally in front of you, the reason to change it is too.
Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy (MS), Seattle Pacific University
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT) — Utah
Clinical practice since 2018
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