Good Neighbor Podcast: Fort Collins
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Good Neighbor Podcast: Fort Collins
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.
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Nick George.
Speaker 2:Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. Are you in need of an amazing therapist that's just around the corner? Well, one might be just around the corner and closer than you think. Today I have the pleasure of introducing your good neighbor, lisa Anderson, with Uncaged Therapy. Lisa, how's it going?
Speaker 3:Great. Thank you so much for having me. It's wonderful to be here and have an opportunity to talk about my services and get to know some of my community.
Speaker 2:Awesome. We're excited to learn all about you and your practice, so tell us all about it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely so. I have been a therapist for almost 15 years now. I started my private practice three years ago and this month really I am now launching. I have been a virtual telehealth therapy practice but now I am launching into in-person services right here in Fort Collins. So I will continue to provide telehealth services throughout Colorado but also will now have an office in Fort Collins. So I'm really excited about that and really excited to be able to kind of make that in-person connection with my clients again.
Speaker 2:Wow, so you were doing that before.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah, so I've been telehealth for you know, about three years now, but really, yeah, excited to be able to now do both.
Speaker 2:Sure, yeah yeah. Most people are afraid to go into the tele part because they only know the other part, and you've got some really good experience there that you know you can have the confidence to reach out to people that wouldn't otherwise be able to come see you, so that's awesome. I haven't talked to anybody yet that had the confidence and ability to do that online, so how did you get into the business altogether?
Speaker 3:Absolutely yeah. So how did you get into the business altogether? Absolutely yeah. So, like I said, I've been a therapist for about 15 years and was working for various agencies, kind of have really worked all over the so many you know I work with adults so I just had so many people you know in my life personally and then clients coming to me you know just really wanting to figure out themselves, to really figure out like the way that I have been doing life just isn't working for me anymore, and so that's when I really started to kind of drill down into you know what I was sort of looking at, to navigating in my own life and relationships and then seeing some of that mirrored in what my women clients were bringing to me around the level of burnout and exhaustion that they were feeling and really looking for a safe place to process that.
Speaker 2:You focus mainly on women.
Speaker 3:Yes, yeah. So I work with women in their 30s, 40s and beyond and really, you know, looking with those women around life transitions whether that could be parenting, career transitions, phase of life transitions and really helping those women to step into what they feel like they want to empower as their most authentic selves.
Speaker 2:What are some myths or misconceptions in your particular niche?
Speaker 3:Absolutely. Yeah, you know, I think the biggest, you know, misconception, or sometimes fear, that my clients you know present is just that they are reluctant to take this time for themselves. So many of my clients are running around taking care of the people in their lives. They are business owners, they are parents, they are caring for aging parents, they have so many responsibilities and so I think the biggest misconception or fear is like how do I, how do I have time for this one?
Speaker 3:You know, and that's where I have found that telehealth has been a really you know great part of my practice, where I have busy professionals who can see me on their lunch break you know they don't have to travel that sort of thing but same with in person, like could you really just take this time, you know, this one hour out of your busy day to really sit with yourself? And so I think that's the big challenge. Is that a lot of my clients worry, oh, do I deserve to take this time for myself? Or what? What will that open up? And so I think that's the misconception, in that when we can take that time for ourselves, when we take the time to really dig into, you know, why are we feeling, the way we do, what is really happening beneath the surface, and then that's where you know real healing and real connection can come from.
Speaker 2:We know that marketing is the heart of every successful practice. Who are your target clients and how are you attracting them now? Yeah, absolutely A little bit earlier, but I want you to expand on that a little bit, cause sometimes people don't know that, that they need this service and that they're there, that you're excellent at wanting to help them, and so that's where this is your opportunity to reach out to that person that doesn't know they need you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely, I love the way you said that that person that doesn't know they need you.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely I love the way you said that that person that doesn't know that they need me. And so really I would speak to those women who have felt like maybe they are living on edge, they're kind of keeping it all together, maybe they're bracing for the next shoe to drop and they're really wondering, like I have a good life, like what do I really have to complain about, you know? But something maybe might feel like they're missing. And so what I would really say to those women is that you know there's nothing wrong with them. There's like oh, why am I complaining, you know? But really it's their nervous system kind of doing what it has learned to do. What it does for all of us is that it's coming from a place of self protection and you know it's holding them back from something. So I would, you know, just really let them know that they are not alone and that it is OK to kind of let their body and their nervous system lean into what you know what safety and healing can feel like.
Speaker 2:Have you ever thought about doing your own podcast?
Speaker 3:Oh, you know, I haven't, and you reminded me of the second half of that question. Right is the challenge in marketing. And so, you know, I think here we are in 2025. You know, like I said, I've been doing this for a long time and you know, doing some of my initial trainings, I remember, you know, shortly after graduate school, we would do trainings and we would tape record our sessions and our trainer. We would have to mail them and then our trainer would review them, right, and so how amazing is it to be able to reach this wider audience now and to be able to, you know, connect really with people all over the world. So the marketing, yeah, is definitely something I appreciate. Now being able to use platforms, so, yeah, Look at it.
Speaker 3:Oh, thank you. Yeah, I have never.
Speaker 2:This is my very first podcast, so Well, I mean, it's the same thing you've been doing is reaching people, but you've just been doing it in a beeline instead of anyway. So outside of work, what do you do for fun?
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know I love Fort Collins, I love this community, so really any chance I get I love to just get out and about. You know, with my family to a farmer's market or, you know, a park park, getting out to the mountains when we can. I have two dogs, two springer spaniels, and I love springer spaniels, I love all things springer spaniels and do some agility and some training with them and really get outside any chance we get lisa, please tell our listeners one thing they should absolutely take away from our interview today with uncaged therapy you know, move into a place where you can really get out of that survival mode and move to a place where you're not having to keep hustling, where you're not having to keep bracing for the next conflict or keep carrying all of that weight.
Speaker 3:That you know. My focus on kind of attachment therapy, nervous system regulation. I do a couple of therapies as well, called EMDR and IFS. If you know what those are, great. If you don't, you can find out more on my website. And then also I really just want to bring an authentic and grounded presence to my therapy and help my clients feel safe.
Speaker 2:Could you spell out where people can find you online Uncaged Therapy and all of the different ways that you guys present yourself in social media and then maybe a phone number?
Speaker 3:Absolutely yeah. My website is uncagedtherapyorg and that's U-N-C-A-G-E-D-T-H-E-R-A-P-Y dot O-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 Anderson therapy, and then my phone number is 5 0, 5, 6, 2 0, 9, 6, 8, 6.
Speaker 2:Well, lisa, I really appreciate you being on the show and we definitely wish you an uncaged therapy. The very best moving forward.
Speaker 3:Thank you so much. I appreciate it, Nick.
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