Who is Lisa

Lisa Schwarz is a licensed psychologist, who trains professionals to apply Brainspotting to treat trauma and enhance performance.

My private practice as a licensed psychologist is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Mt. Lebanon to be exact), and I have been treating clients since 1987. Currently I am providing consultation and treatment in the areas of performance expansion, sports psychology, military PTSD, trauma and dissociation, attachment disorder and general psychology.

I am the Senior Brainspotting trainer teaching Brainspotting nationally and internationally. I provide specialized BSP consultation for those seeking certification and I am the Training supervisor for those who wish to become Brainspotting trainers.

I work in person, by phone, or via webcam (Skype) with clients and colleagues all over the world. If you have any questions or need further information please feel free to contact me at JCCharlieinc@yahoo.com or phone 412-344-8800 (work) or 412-337-3275 (cell phone).

For many years I harbored the belief that if I healed my wounds I would die. That basically I would have “learned the lesson I was here to learn” and so it would be “time to go”….Needless to say, this belief system was keeping me from embodying my core self and my spiritual essence in my work as I was unable to attain that clarity without fully healing.

I have realized that the opposite is true, that the more I heal and the deeper I allow myself to go in my healing journey, the better equipped I am to fulfill my purpose in this lifetime. My purpose is to serve others through teaching, training, consulting, and treatment using Brainspotting along with other effective treatment methods. The excitement and passion I feel for my work with others has increased a hundred-fold the more personal work that I do and it is now part of my purpose to share this passion for serving others in the highest possible way. What a relief to have re-framed that original thought – that healing meant death. I am now able to provide other therapists, healers, teachers, and clients with the most creative, comprehensive, and effective guidance and support in their clinical practice and personal healing journey.

The techniques that I use in my work are those that were shared with me by amazing and gifted healers from all over the world. These tools include Brainspotting, Somatic Archaeology, Source Point Therapy, Trauma Model therapy, Reiki, and psycho-spiritual work. My next goal is to learn the system of Core Energetics (John Pierrakos). I utilize ego state (parts) work in my teaching and treatment of most diagnoses and have spent the past 20 years learning about dissociation and finding creative ways to heal it. One of my strongest areas of expertise for consultation and training is severe dissociation, attachment disruption, and performance expansion for which I have developed the Resource Model of Brainspotting. This Resource Model addresses attachment issues, dissociative issues, and core self/spiritual essence. I have been tracking traumatic experiences and their sequelae starting with one’s experience in-uterol through the first 6 months of life and have come up with these tools in order to facilitate healing from theses pre-natal and or pre-verbal wounds.