Lisa is a certified Special Education teacher for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities. She completed her post-graduate education through UMaine Farmington. She co-designed a highly successful proactive program called MANTA  at York High School dedicated as a “safe place" to help struggling students solve problems and build skills that help them to be more successful. She has worked in special education for over twenty years and, prior to this time, taught acting and improvisation skills to At-Risk kids for the Portland Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

Also trained in Transformative Mediation, Lisa is currently working toward a further certificate through Colorado State University in Conflict Resolution and Mediation with an eye to mediating folks using ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) in the court system and in private practice.
Lisa also is trained as a Community Facilitator in Restorative Justice with the Restorative Justice Project of Belfast, Maine and has completed additional training with RJ/Belfast in the nationwide Open Table project, welcoming those returning to community from the criminal justice system.

She and York High School spent a year under the tutelage of Dr. Ross Greene, who Lisa brought to York to lead staff in his CPS (Collaborative and Proactive Solutions) Model which places emphasis on the idea that “kids do well if they can and, if they are not doing well, something is getting in their way.” (Greene, R., Lost At School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them, 2008) Marrying those practices with her own version of “the voodoo she do ’ and her overarching concept of unconditional positive regard has been her "road in” to helping kids find their way.