Elisa Lugo-Hanson, LPC

Elisa Lugo-Hanson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Arizona with 15 years of professional experience. She approaches therapy with the belief that each person is the expert of their own story and that individual strengths are central to overcoming challenges. Elisa emphasizes the courage involved in seeking a more fulfilling and happier life and aims to support and empower people as they take the first steps toward meaningful change.

Her background includes more than a decade in behavioral health with a mix of clinical practice and administrative leadership. Elisa has served as a Southern Regional Clinical Director and Clinical Program Director, roles that involved staff training, crisis intervention, program coordination, and ensuring compliance across multiple regions. She has worked as a Behavioral Health Clinician providing direct care and has experience offering clinical supervision, program development, case management, and crisis response.

Throughout her career Elisa has provided care for a broad range of populations, including survivors of trauma, people with behavioral challenges, incarcerated individuals, and couples. She brings a trauma-informed perspective to work with relationship and intimacy issues, self-esteem and self-love concerns, career-related stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, and social anxiety and phobia. Her combined clinical and leadership experience informs a practical, strengths-based approach aimed at helping clients navigate transitions and build healthier connections.