Lisa began her social work training at Toronto’s Mt. Sinai Hospital, supporting women experiencing high-risk pregnancies, infertility, and perinatal loss. Early in her career, she worked at a specialized children’s mental health centre for children with learning disabilities and autism, and then worked treating addictions and as a school counsellor in New York. As a Toronto District School Board social worker, Lisa provided counselling and support to families for two decades.
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Lisa first began working as an approved adoption practitioner in 2007. In 2020, she left the TDSB to focus on full-time adoption work, providing counselling and support to prospective adoptive families, adoptive parents, birth parents and adoptees. Her work has been shaped by personal connections to the adoption triad and visits to children's homes and orphanages in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Morocco, and across Europe.
 
In addition to her work as an adoption practitioner, Lisa maintains a small private practice in Toronto. She is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and brings a calm, grounded presence to her work with individuals and families.
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