Lisa is married with two children and relocated to Missouri from Colorado four years ago.  Lisa brings a wealth of personal experience, academic training and almost 20 years of experience as a nationally certified school psychologist and is currently working as a provisionally licensed professional counselor.  As a school psychologist, Lisa worked with students from preschool through high school and provided consultation to parents, instructors, and administrators to provide a deeper understanding of academic needs and services.  She has worked with students suffering from severe emotional and behavioral deficits in both day treatment and self-contained classrooms.  Lisa was an active member of the Crisis Response Team in Colorado and provided immediate assistance and support to children in crisis, including those directly impacted during and after the Columbine shootings.  Lisa has a passion for parent education and has created a parenting program, Positive & Powerful Christian Parenting, to offer parents a strong foundation for creating happy and healthy homes.  In counseling, Lisa uses an integrative approach focusing on the family system to support families in their growth; through marriage and family therapy.  Lisa has a MA degree in Educational Psychology and an Ed.S degree in school psychology from the University of Colorado at Denver.