QUALITY CARE
YOU CAN TRUST
Every person's medication needs are unique and depend on their individual health circumstances. Lisa is dedicated to thoroughly understanding your health and personal journey. She actively listens to your concerns and preferences, ensuring that you receive the personalized, high-quality care you deserve. Your wellness is her top priority.
LISA LIPPINCOTT, PMHNP-BC-CBT
Lisa Lippincott is a board certified APMHNP, with certificate of additional qualifications in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and advanced training in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction from Vanderbilt University. Lisa has extensive experience in public and private inpatient and outpatient settings, and specializes in depression, generalized anxiety, OCD and mood disorders. Lisa has served as a psychiatric nurse liaison consultant at Tulane Medical Center New Orleans, supervisor for intensive outpatient programs at NMMC Behavioral Health and outpatient practices at Vanderbilt Medical Center and UMMC in Jackson, MS.
WHAT TO EXPECT
COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY INTAKE
As a Practitioner Lisa focuses on building a therapeutic relationship with her patients through open and direct communication. She takes pride in conceptualizing the patient as a whole and takes physical, social, and emotional well-being into account. When creating a treatment plan she encourages her patients to be an active participant and takes time to make sure her patients know their treatment options. Also, she encourages collaboration with other professionals who are also participating in her patients care.
PERSONALIZED TREATMENT PLAN & IMPLEMENTATION
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TREATMENT SPECIALITIES + MODALITIES
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Anxiety Disorders
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Depression
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy
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Acceptance and Committment Therapy
SPECIALIZING IN ANXIETY + DEPRESSIVE DISORDERS
ANXIETY
Experiencing occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. However, people with anxiety disorders frequently have intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Often, anxiety disorders involve repeated episodes of sudden feelings of intense anxiety and fear or terror that reach a peak within minutes (panic attacks).
These feelings of anxiety and panic interfere with daily activities, are difficult to control, are out of proportion to the actual danger and can last a long time. You may avoid places or situations to prevent these feelings. Symptoms may start during childhood or the teen years and continue into adulthood.
Examples of anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder (social phobia), specific phobias and separation anxiety disorder. You can have more than one anxiety disorder. Sometimes anxiety results from a medical condition that needs treatment. Whatever form of anxiety you have, treatment can help.
DEPRESSION
Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest. Also called major depressive disorder or clinical depression, it affects how you feel, think and behave and can lead to a variety of emotional and physical problems. You may have trouble doing normal day-to-day activities, and sometimes you may feel as if life isn't worth living.
More than just a bout of the blues, depression isn't a weakness and you can't simply "snap out" of it. Depression may require long-term treatment. But don't get discouraged. Most people with depression feel better with medication, CBT, or psychotherapy.
OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER (OCD)
Experiencing occasional anxiety is a normal part of life. However, people with anxiety disorders frequently have intense, excessive and persistent worry and fear about everyday situations. Often, anxiety disorders involve repeated episodes of sudden feelings of intense anxiety and fear or terror that reach a peak within minutes (panic attacks).
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These feelings of anxiety and panic interfere with daily activities, are difficult to control, are out of proportion to the actual danger and can last a long time. You may avoid places or situations to prevent these feelings. Symptoms may start during childhood or the teen years and continue into adulthood.
THERAPY APPROACHES
COGNITIVE BEHAVIOR THERAPY
Cognitive behavior therapy is a structured, didactic, and goal-oriented form of therapy. The approach is hands-on and practical wherein the therapist and patient work in a collaborative manner with the goal of modifying patterns of thinking and behavior to bring about a beneficial change in the patient's mood and way of living his/her life. It is used to help a wide range of problems, and appropriate treatment protocols are applied depending on the diagnosis and problems the patient is facing.
Most psychotherapists who practice CBT personalize and customize the therapy to the specific needs of each patient.
The first step is an assessment of the patient and the initiation of developing an individualized conceptualization of him/her. The conceptualization based on the CBT model is built from session to session and is shared with the patient at an appropriate time later in therapy. The approach to therapy is explained very early at the start of the therapy. The problems patient would like to work on in therapy, and goals for therapy are decided in the first or second session collaboratively. The prioritized problems are worked on first.
The structure of each session:
The session always starts with a brief update and check on mood. This is followed by bridging from the previous session to establish continuity. The agenda of what will be talked about in the session is set up collaboratively, and the homework the patient had to do between the sessions is reviewed before plunging into talking about any problem. Issues on the agenda are talked about punctuated with feedback and summaries. The session ends with setting up further homework and a final summary.
ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITTMENT THERAPY
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is an action-oriented approach to psychotherapy that stems from traditional behavior therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Clients learn to stop avoiding, denying, and struggling with their inner emotions and, instead, accept that these deeper feelings are appropriate responses to certain situations that should not prevent them from moving forward in their lives. With this understanding, clients begin to accept their hardships and commit to making necessary changes in their behavior, regardless of what is going on in their lives and how they feel about it.
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ACT was developed in the 1980s by psychologist Steven C. Hayes, a professor at the University of Nevada. The ideas that coalesced into ACT emerged from Hayes’s own experience, particularly his history of panic attacks. Eventually, he vowed that he would no longer run from himself—he would accept himself and his experiences.