Malisa Hepner, LCSW

Malisa Hepner is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Oklahoma. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people who feel overwhelmed by relationships, family conflict, or life changes. Her style is direct and practical, aimed at helping people make clear steps forward.

She describes herself as a non-traditional therapist who draws on personal experience to shape how she works. Sessions often include straightforward guidance and tools that clients can try between meetings. She pays attention to motivation, self-esteem, and grief or loss when those issues come up.

Malisa uses several therapy approaches depending on what a person needs. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how close relationships affect emotions. She draws on emotion-focused methods to help people name and work through painful feelings. Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are used to build short-term skills and practical changes.

Her background includes three years of professional experience as an LCSW in Oklahoma. That experience has involved helping people cope with control issues, communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, loneliness, and post-traumatic stress. Clients can expect a direct conversational style with focused tools for everyday life.

People interested in working with Malisa should be ready for a collaborative process. She encourages honest conversation about what is and is not helping, and she adjusts methods to fit each person's goals and circumstances.

How these approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how close relationships shape emotions and behavior. Online sessions can focus on patterns in relationships, helping people notice and change the ways they connect with others. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches practical skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance. In remote sessions, this often means learning short, repeatable skills to use during stressful moments. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and work through strong feelings that underlie relationship patterns; online meetings can guide people to name emotions and try new ways of responding.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past attempts at change, and what feels most workable. Together they pick methods to try and adjust them over time if something is not helping.

Confirm current session options before booking so you know how meetings are scheduled. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It can also help people practice skills in everyday settings and bring real-life examples into the conversation. The therapist and client will decide what rhythm and format best support progress.