About Lisa
Lisa Hammes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 11 years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and parenting challenges. She brings a warm, approachable manner and a touch of humor to sessions. Lisa aims to meet people where they are and build on their strengths to move forward.
Her style is interactive and practical. She listens first, then works with each person to set small, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on skills people can use between meetings, such as coping techniques and communication strategies. Lisa draws on a mix of methods so care fits the person. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking, dialectical behavior therapy skills for emotion regulation, and mindfulness practices to ease tension.
She also incorporates solution-focused ideas to help people make concrete changes quickly. People come to Lisa for a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety and stress, including relationship strain, grief, self-esteem struggles, caregiver burnout, chronic illness challenges, and career transitions. She also helps with issues like impulsivity, codependency, and body image.
Her approach treats the person, not just the problem. Lisa emphasizes collaboration and practical steps. She encourages clients to notice small gains and build on them.
The result is a steady, down-to-earth path toward clearer coping and more satisfying daily life.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and building a trusting working relationship. It involves listening closely and tailoring sessions to what matters most to the client, which can help with anxiety, grief, and life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. It teaches practical strategies for shifting unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, offers concrete skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. People often use DBT skills to cope with intense stress, impulsivity, or emotional overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. Together they track what works and adjust the plan over time.
Online therapy brings these approaches to video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills in real time. Phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited or a simpler check-in is needed. Live chat and text let people send short messages between sessions or have brief check-ins when that fits their day. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while still focusing on meaningful change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- 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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