About Lisa
Lisa Hess, LPC, works with people who are stressed, anxious, or facing big life changes. She helps clients who are coping with trauma, depression, parenting strain, relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy issues, sleep and eating problems, low self-esteem, career stress, or attention challenges. Conversations are meant to be straightforward and centered on practical next steps.
She brings warmth, honesty, and a bit of humor to sessions. Lisa focuses on listening first and then helping people find approaches that fit their daily lives.
Background and approach
She encourages small experiments to test new ways of handling stress and anxiety so progress feels real and manageable. With 15 years of experience as a licensed professional counselor, she draws on several counseling styles. Lisa uses client-centered listening to understand each person’s values and goals.
She also applies cognitive behavioral ideas to identify thought and behavior patterns that keep problems stuck. Narrative and existential perspectives are part of her work too. Those approaches help people make sense of life's meaning, rewrite unhelpful stories, and find choices when situations feel limiting.
Motivational interviewing is used when clients want to change but feel stuck or unsure where to start. Sessions are offered in English and take place online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Lisa practices in Michigan and combines practical tools with respectful conversation to help people feel more steady and in control of next steps.
How Lisa’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person where they are. Online sessions use that approach to build trust and help clients name what matters most to them, which is useful for anxiety and life transitions.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In remote sessions this can mean identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying small behavioral experiments, and tracking results between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve sleep or mood.
Narrative therapy helps people separate themselves from problem stories and try new ways of talking about their lives. Through video or chat, clients can revisit old narratives and practice different responses in everyday situations.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each client to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and life demands. That collaborative process can be adjusted over time as needs change.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for deeper conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit counseling into work, caregiving, or school schedules and to keep progress steady between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
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