- Emotion-focused work
- DBT skill coaching
- Mindfulness practice
About Malisa
Malisa Hepner is an LCSW licensed in Oklahoma with three years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling stressed, anxious, or stuck after life changes. She also supports people dealing with relationship and family strain, low self-esteem, grief, and motivation challenges.
She describes her style as non-traditional and direct. She shares practical ideas and teaches skills she has used in her own healing from complex post-traumatic stress. In sessions she focuses on naming feelings and identifying patterns that keep people feeling stuck.
Malisa draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at the emotions that drive interactions and attachment-based patterns. She also uses dialectical behavior therapy skills to manage intense emotions and mindfulness to help slow things down when people feel overwhelmed.
Her work often centers on improving communication and reducing reactivity. That can mean coaching how to ask for needs, set limits, or step back when control issues surface. She also addresses divorce and separation, forgiveness, guilt, shame, and loneliness in practical ways.
Clients can expect straightforward feedback and concrete tools they can try between sessions. Malisa encourages people to notice small changes in how they relate to themselves and others and to build on those shifts over time.
How her approaches translate to online work
Many of her methods translate well to remote sessions. Emotionally-Focused Therapy focuses on identifying and naming core emotions and interaction patterns, which helps people understand why they repeat the same conflicts or withdrawal. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early connection styles shape present relationships and can guide work on trust and closeness. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete skills for managing intense emotions and reducing impulsive reactions, such as breathing, grounding, and distress-tolerance techniques.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative step. She will discuss goals and preferences and help decide which methods fit a person's needs. That might mean emphasizing emotion-focused work for relationship patterns or DBT skills when emotions feel overwhelming.
Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the biography. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, allow shorter check-ins when schedules require them, or avoid travel time. They also let people use mindfulness practices and skills coaching in real time during the week.
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Experience
3+ years
Listed in
Oklahoma
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, relationship and family strain, low self-esteem, grief, and life changes including divorce and separation.
How would you describe her therapy style?
Her approach is direct and practical. She mixes Emotionally-Focused Therapy with skill-based work and mindful practices.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has three years of professional experience as an LCSW working with the listed concerns.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She is an LCSW licensed in Oklahoma and practices from that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people from other countries work with her?
She does not accept international clients at this time.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to begin working with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule your first session.
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