If ever there was a circuitous path and life journey, Lissa’s is it. Born in Manhattan, Lissa attended grammar school through 6th grade in NYC. Her family moved to a small town in upstate NY where she graduated from high school. Lissa has a bachelor degree in journalism and public relations from Utica College of Syracuse University. Right after college, Lissa worked in various jobs in publicity for the NBC Television Network in NYC and Chicago.
She moved to Los Angeles to work for the Walt Disney Buena Vista Television Studios, and eventually left the publicity side to move into local television news production. A series of life-threatening and life-changing events shifted the life-path for Lissa once again, and in 1999 she embarked on a spiritual journey of discovery and learning that led her to the Fuller Theological Seminary. She graduated in 2003 with a Master of Divinity degree and was ordained as a pastor in 2010.
Lissa Bradford
M.Div, BCC, CPLC
Through a series of complicated relationships, tough “life-lessons” and challenges, working a recovery program for alcohol addiction, chronic co-dependency and “people-pleasing,” Lissa learned skills and tools that changed her life for the better. In 2018 Lissa had an epiphany to help others to live a life in freedom and peace, and she started offering Life Coaching and Counseling via Healthy Boundary Society. Lissa’s passion for empowering persons to live their most free and peaceful lives continues to grow and grow.
She is fueled by a personal relationship with God / Jesus/ Holy Spirit spirituality and is excited to support others to identify their own understanding of a loving, inclusive God.
Lissa has lived in NY, PA, IL, IN, CA, ME and FL. Lissa is a Certified Professional Life Coach, Board Certified Chaplain, Certified End of Life Doula, Certified Mental Health First Responder, and Teaching Elder in the PCUSA.
She is an empath, an extroverted-introvert who loves animals, reading, writing, eating yummy food, meditation, walking her pup, being in silence, all-things-beach, and spending time with her husband and beloved Framily.