Helping Women Reclaim Their Time: A Conversation with Lisa Anderson

Ever feel like you're just barely keeping it all together? Meet Lisa Anderson, a therapist with nearly 15 years of experience who understands exactly what you're going through. 

Lisa founded Uncaged Therapy to help women in their 30s, 40s, and beyond who find themselves constantly taking care of others while neglecting their own needs. Through our conversation, she reveals how many women live on edge, bracing for the next crisis while wondering why they feel unfulfilled despite having "good lives." The answer, she explains, lies in our nervous systems—they're stuck in protection mode, keeping us in perpetual survival mode.

What makes Lisa's approach unique is her blend of virtual and in-person therapy options. After three years of exclusively telehealth services, she's excited to launch in-person sessions in Fort Collins while continuing to serve clients throughout Colorado virtually. This flexibility addresses one of the biggest barriers women face: finding time for themselves amid demanding schedules of running businesses, raising children, and caring for aging parents.

Lisa specializes in attachment therapy, nervous system regulation, EMDR, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help women move beyond constant hustle. Her compassionate perspective normalizes the struggle many women face—feeling they don't deserve to prioritize their own healing. "There's nothing wrong with you," she reassures potential clients, explaining that therapy creates a safe space to discover what authentic living feels like beyond survival mode.

Ready to step into a more authentic version of yourself? Connect with Lisa at uncagedtherapy.org, on Facebook at Lisa Anderson Therapy, or by calling 505-620-9686. Your journey toward healing doesn't have to wait another day.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place
where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Nick George.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast.
Are you in need of an amazingtherapist that's just around the
corner?
Well, one might be just aroundthe corner and closer than you
think.
Today I have the pleasure ofintroducing your good neighbor,
lisa Anderson, with UncagedTherapy.
Lisa, how's it going?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Great.
Thank you so much for having me.
It's wonderful to be here andhave an opportunity to talk
about my services and get toknow some of my community.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Awesome.
We're excited to learn allabout you and your practice, so
tell us all about it.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, absolutely so.
I have been a therapist foralmost 15 years now.
I started my private practicethree years ago and this month
really I am now launching.
I have been a virtualtelehealth therapy practice but
now I am launching intoin-person services right here in
Fort Collins.

(01:08):
So I will continue to providetelehealth services throughout
Colorado but also will now havean office in Fort Collins.
So I'm really excited aboutthat and really excited to be
able to kind of make thatin-person connection with my
clients again.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
Wow, so you were doing that before.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yes, yeah, so I've been telehealth for you know,
about three years now, butreally, yeah, excited to be able
to now do both.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Sure, yeah yeah.
Most people are afraid to gointo the tele part because they
only know the other part, andyou've got some really good
experience there that you knowyou can have the confidence to
reach out to people thatwouldn't otherwise be able to
come see you, so that's awesome.
I haven't talked to anybody yetthat had the confidence and
ability to do that online, sohow did you get into the

(01:56):
business altogether?

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Absolutely yeah.
So how did you get into thebusiness altogether?
Absolutely yeah.
So, like I said, I've been atherapist for about 15 years and
was working for variousagencies, kind of have really

(02:19):
worked all over the so many youknow I work with adults so I
just had so many people you knowin my life personally and then
clients coming to me you knowjust really wanting to figure
out themselves, to really figureout like the way that I have
been doing life just isn'tworking for me anymore, and so
that's when I really started tokind of drill down into you know

(02:41):
what I was sort of looking at,to navigating in my own life and
relationships and then seeingsome of that mirrored in what my
women clients were bringing tome around the level of burnout
and exhaustion that they werefeeling and really looking for a
safe place to process that.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
You focus mainly on women.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yes, yeah.
So I work with women in their30s, 40s and beyond and really,
you know, looking with thosewomen around life transitions
whether that could be parenting,career transitions, phase of
life transitions and reallyhelping those women to step into

(03:20):
what they feel like they wantto empower as their most
authentic selves.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
What are some myths or misconceptions in your
particular niche?

Speaker 3 (03:31):
Absolutely.
Yeah, you know, I think thebiggest, you know, misconception
, or sometimes fear, that myclients you know present is just
that they are reluctant to takethis time for themselves.
So many of my clients arerunning around taking care of
the people in their lives.
They are business owners, theyare parents, they are caring for

(03:55):
aging parents, they have somany responsibilities and so I
think the biggest misconceptionor fear is like how do I, how do
I have time for this one?
You know, and that's where Ihave found that telehealth has
been a really you know greatpart of my practice, where I
have busy professionals who cansee me on their lunch break you
know they don't have to travelthat sort of thing but same with

(04:16):
in person, like could youreally just take this time, you
know, this one hour out of yourbusy day to really sit with
yourself?
And so I think that's the bigchallenge.
Is that a lot of my clientsworry, oh, do I deserve to take
this time for myself?
Or what?
What will that open up?
And so I think that's themisconception, in that when we
can take that time for ourselves, when we take the time to

(04:39):
really dig into, you know, whyare we feeling, the way we do,
what is really happening beneaththe surface, and then that's
where you know real healing andreal connection can come from.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
We know that marketing is the heart of every
successful practice.
Who are your target clients andhow are you attracting them now
?
Yeah, absolutely A little bitearlier, but I want you to
expand on that a little bit,cause sometimes people don't
know that, that they need thisservice and that they're there,
that you're excellent at wantingto help them, and so that's

(05:14):
where this is your opportunityto reach out to that person that
doesn't know they need you.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yeah, absolutely, I love the way you said that that
person that doesn't know theyneed you.
Yeah, absolutely I love the wayyou said that that person that
doesn't know that they need me.
And so really I would speak tothose women who have felt like
maybe they are living on edge,they're kind of keeping it all
together, maybe they're bracingfor the next shoe to drop and
they're really wondering, like Ihave a good life, like what do

(05:38):
I really have to complain about,you know?
But something maybe might feellike they're missing.
And so what I would really sayto those women is that you know
there's nothing wrong with them.
There's like oh, why am Icomplaining, you know?
But really it's their nervoussystem kind of doing what it has
learned to do.
What it does for all of us isthat it's coming from a place of

(05:59):
self protection and you knowit's holding them back from
something.
So I would, you know, justreally let them know that they
are not alone and that it is OKto kind of let their body and
their nervous system lean intowhat you know what safety and
healing can feel like.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
Have you ever thought about doing your own podcast?

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Oh, you know, I haven't, and you reminded me of
the second half of that question.
Right is the challenge inmarketing.
And so, you know, I think herewe are in 2025.
You know, like I said, I'vebeen doing this for a long time
and you know, doing some of myinitial trainings, I remember,
you know, shortly after graduateschool, we would do trainings

(06:46):
and we would tape record oursessions and our trainer.
We would have to mail them andthen our trainer would review
them, right, and so how amazingis it to be able to reach this
wider audience now and to beable to, you know, connect
really with people all over theworld.
So the marketing, yeah, isdefinitely something I
appreciate.
Now being able to use platforms, so, yeah, Look at it.

(07:10):
Oh, thank you.
Yeah, I have never.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
This is my very first podcast, so Well, I mean, it's
the same thing you've been doingis reaching people, but you've
just been doing it in a beelineinstead of anyway.
So outside of work, what do youdo for fun?

Speaker 3 (07:26):
Yeah, you know I love Fort Collins, I love this
community, so really any chanceI get I love to just get out and
about.
You know, with my family to afarmer's market or, you know, a
park park, getting out to themountains when we can.
I have two dogs, two springerspaniels, and I love springer

(07:47):
spaniels, I love all thingsspringer spaniels and do some
agility and some training withthem and really get outside any
chance we get lisa, please tellour listeners one thing they
should absolutely take away fromour interview today with
uncaged therapy you know, moveinto a place where you can

(08:22):
really get out of that survivalmode and move to a place where
you're not having to keephustling, where you're not
having to keep bracing for thenext conflict or keep carrying
all of that weight.
That you know.
My focus on kind of attachmenttherapy, nervous system
regulation.
I do a couple of therapies aswell, called EMDR and IFS.

(08:46):
If you know what those are,great.
If you don't, you can find outmore on my website.
And then also I really justwant to bring an authentic and
grounded presence to my therapyand help my clients feel safe.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
Could you spell out where people can find you online
Uncaged Therapy and all of thedifferent ways that you guys
present yourself in social mediaand then maybe a phone number?

Speaker 3 (09:09):
Absolutely yeah.
My website is uncagedtherapyorgand that's
U-N-C-A-G-E-D-T-H-E-R-A-P-Y dotO-R-G.
I have a Facebook page.
G E D T H E R A P Y dot or or G.
I have a Facebook page.
My Facebook is Lisa Andersontherapy, and then my phone
number is 5 0, 5, 6, 2 0, 9, 6,8, 6.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Well, lisa, I really appreciate you being on the show
and we definitely wish you anuncaged therapy.
The very best moving forward.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
Thank you so much.
I appreciate it, Nick.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
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