Lisa Pepper-Satkin, LMFT

Lisa Pepper-Satkin is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) with three decades of experience blending psychotherapy and executive coaching. She combines practical coaching strategies with depth-oriented therapy to help people clarify priorities, overcome barriers, and pursue meaningful goals. Her training includes certification in Brené Brown's Dare to Lead methodology, which she weaves into leadership and personal growth work to encourage courageous decision-making and wholehearted engagement.

Known for reliable accountability and creative problem-solving, Lisa brings a background that spans clinical practice, entrepreneurship, and leadership development. She supports clients facing stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, grief, life transitions, and issues around control, communication, guilt, and forgiveness. Her approach emphasizes resilience building, clarity of purpose, and actionable steps that move clients toward lives they want to create.

In addition to individual counseling and coaching, Lisa designs and facilitates workshops and retreats that blend psychological insight, creativity, and strategic coaching to accelerate change for individuals and teams. She gravitates toward entrepreneurial and leadership settings, where her natural ability to connect, her intuitive perspective, and her pragmatic focus help others make measurable progress. Lisa aims to create a transformative environment that encourages exploration, growth, and sustained forward movement.

Integrative Approaches and Flexible Online Care

Lisa Pepper-Satkin uses an integrative therapy and coaching approach that blends evidence-based psychotherapy with executive coaching techniques - this approach helps clients clarify goals, address stress and anxiety, and take concrete steps toward change. She also incorporates principles from Brené Brown's Dare to Lead methodology, focusing on vulnerability, courage, and leadership skills to support people navigating career transitions, relationship shifts, and decision-making under pressure.

Her method is collaborative - she partners with each person to identify the therapeutic approach that fits their needs, goals, and preferences. Over time she adjusts strategies based on what is most effective, combining coaching-style accountability with psychotherapeutic tools to help clients build resilience and pursue meaningful outcomes.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different lifestyles and schedules. These options make it easier to maintain continuity of care while balancing work, family, and travel, and they allow people in other locations to access her expertise without geographic limits.