San Francisco native and Marriage and Family Counselor Lisa Lincoln founded Mission Therapy, which is located in the Mission District of San Francisco. Lisa Lincoln has a compassionate, realistic, and results-oriented approach to counseling her clients. Lisa does not simply help clients address symptoms, she creates a meaningful connection to help them beyond symptom relief to what she calls, “symptom transformation.” Through her work at Mission Therapy, Lisa helps clients untangle thought patterns and processes that can prevent them from enjoying life and forging meaningful relationships with others. Mission Therapy is a safe place to work through marriage and family difficulties, personal crises, and many other psychological challenges. Lisa has a special talent for helping teenagers work through the complicated and often debilitating feelings and impulses experienced during this challenging time in their lives. Call Mission Therapy in San Francisco for a confidential, safe, and nonjudgmental assessment.
Education:
2004-2006
New College of California Feminist Clinical Concentration
San Francisco, CA
New College Community Counseling Center Intern
HAKOMI TRAUMA TRAINING (1998-1999) : Certificate of Completion
1999
126+ Continuing Education Hours. Anger (2000) Addiction (2001) Dissociation (2003)
San Francisco, CA
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
PARTICIPATORY ARTS, SOMATIC MOVEMENT THERAPY, MASSAGE THERAPY : Certified
1996-1997
Moving On Center - School for Participatory Arts and Research
Oakland, CA
CERTIFIED MOVEMENT ANALYST 1995-1996
Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies
New York City, NY
BACHELOR OF ARTS : College of Letters 1989-1993
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT
Europa-Kolleg Sprachschule (Summer 1990), Wesleyan Program in Paris
(Spring 1991)
Clients have used these words to describe me and my work:
creative
“you got heart”
unexpected insight
intuitive
freedom
healer
you have a method, and it works!
you are really talented at this. I wouldn’t be coming back if you weren’t.
catalyst
this is a sacred space
I work well with and welcome people from all ethnicities and cultural backgrounds and orientations.
I see a mark of health when an individual’s inner world and outer world/outside life are more in sync with what you want and hope for true to who you are. I am a listening guide to your own empowerment.
deepening relationship with yourself, &/or your partner, family, friends, and loved ones.