About Carissa
Carissa Alt-Frankard is a licensed professional counselor with 11 years of experience helping people manage stress and anxiety. She practices in Wisconsin and focuses on real-life problems like relationships, parenting, work pressures, and major life changes. She keeps sessions straightforward and warm.
Clients can expect a calm, nonjudgmental space to talk through what’s worrying them. The tone is practical and supportive, with attention to building self-compassion and clearer communication. Carissa often uses goal-focused conversations to help clients sort priorities and make small changes that add up.
Background and approach
She pairs this with mindfulness skills to reduce reactivity and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques to shift unhelpful thinking. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused tools are used when people want concrete next steps. She has particular experience supporting women with pregnancy, childbirth, and body image concerns.
Carissa also helps young adults facing workplace stress, social anxiety, and feelings of isolation. She works with people who are grieving, struggling with self-esteem, or managing ADHD symptoms in daily life. Sessions move at the client’s pace.
Carissa emphasizes practical strategies for coping along with time for honest reflection. She aims to help people find clearer communication, greater self-love, and a renewed sense of purpose.
How her approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and meeting each person where they are. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what matters most, and helps people find their own solutions over time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online CBT often includes identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying small behavioral experiments, and building new routines to reduce anxiety and improve mood. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple practices to notice thoughts and bodily reactions without judgment. These skills can reduce reactivity to stress and be practiced between sessions to help manage anxiety and overwhelm. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made. Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and text-based messaging make brief check-ins possible and can help keep momentum between longer sessions.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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