Lisa Gardiner is an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) at Vantage Point. Her approach is supportive, curious, collaborative, and engaged. She believes that therapy can help us grow, become unstuck, become more self-aware and self-accepting and/or deepen our relationships with others.

Her clinical approach is integrative, relational, trauma-informed and strengths-based, with a foundation in psychodynamic theory, which prioritizes deep listening and the early relationships that shape us. She also draws on approaches such as narrative therapy, ACT, and ERP, when appropriate, and has additional training in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT).

She works with adults and teens experiencing depression, anxiety, and OCD, the impacts of trauma, as well as relationship challenges, life transitions and grief. She enjoys supporting parents, families and working with couples. She also works with people experiencing or recovering from illness as well as their caregivers.

She has more than 25 years of previous professional experience, and also enjoys collaborating with clients as they seek meaning and purpose in their work and a life driven by core values. 

Lisa is a graduate of Reed College, Vanderbilt University and the Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA, where she received a master’s degree in counseling psychology. She completed her practicum at a low-cost counseling center in West Sacramento, where she gained experience working with adults, couples, teens and children. Being a therapist is her second career.

English.

LICENSE NUMBER AMFT  #159351
SUPERVISED BY: SHELLEY TIRSBECK, MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPIST #85396

DCA Certification
https://search.dca.ca.gov/details/2001/IMF/159351/5c8ca6a7b82f57350438cb908036c9db

Lisa Gardiner Sacramento AMFT

Lisa Gardiner Sacramento AMFT