Lisa received her Master of Social Service from Bryn Mawr Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research and attended Palmer Theological Seminary. She has a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education from Elizabethtown College.
Lisa is a good fit for the client who is seeking a therapist who will draw out their inherent strengths and resiliency and serve as a guide through life transitions and change-making processes.
Lisa’s clinical experience includes working on a hospice inpatient unit, providing mental health therapy at a local counseling center and treating clients at Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems.
Lisa has non-profit development and leadership experience as founder of YoungMoms, an agency that serves pregnant and parenting teens in Southern Chester County. She also works with transitional age youth who are leaving the foster care system.
Lisa specializes in treating clients who are struggling with grief and loss, intimate betrayal trauma, divorce, unplanned pregnancy, depression, anxiety, addiction, attachment disorder, bipolar, borderline, PTSD, childhood trauma, co-dependency and spiritual wounds. Lisa uses an individualized approach and draws on a variety of therapeutic modalities including narrative therapy, trauma-focused CBT, DBT, Solution Focused Therapy and Christian counseling.
Lisa has been married to her husband for 37 years, has raised four children and is now Baba to five grandkids.
Licensed Social Worker
Lisa Gafgen MacMain, LSW
Training towards LCSW licensure - in progress
Credentials:
General Mental Health Concerns
Attachment
Addictions
Anxiety
Bipolar
College Counseling
Depression
Domestic Violence
Faith-Based Counseling
Families
Grief & Loss
Groups
Life Transitions
Self-Worth/Self-Esteem
Trauma
Adolescents
Children
Intimate Betrayal Trauma
Unplanned Pregnancy
Teen Moms
Foster Care
Transitional-Age Youth
Specialties:

West Chester, Kennett Square, Telehealth
Master of Social Service
Bryn Mawr
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Elementary Education
Elizabethtown College
LSW License SW130817
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC)