About Lisa
Lisa Hughes is a licensed clinician who brings seven years of counseling experience to her practice in Maryland. She holds an MD and is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor - LCPC. Lisa focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety while rebuilding self-esteem and coping with life changes.
She uses straightforward conversation and practical tools in sessions. Lisa listens without judgment and works with each person to set clear, reachable goals.
Background and approach
She offers approaches that help with depression, grief, workplace strain, and compassion fatigue. Her background includes long-term work in mental health and graduate training in clinical mental health counseling from Johns Hopkins University. That combination shapes a practice grounded in real-world experience and clinical knowledge.
Lisa pays attention to how culture and life history affect wellbeing. Sessions often focus on immediate concerns and step-by-step strategies. She draws on client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities, and on solution-focused techniques to build quick, practical changes.
Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing are used when they fit the client's needs. Lisa is comfortable addressing relationship and career worries, feelings of isolation, and questions about life purpose. She also works with issues such as abandonment, communication problems, forgiveness, jealousy, and women’s issues.
Her goal is to support people as they find stronger ways to cope and move forward.
How Lisa’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person in front of the therapist. It means the therapist listens closely and follows the client's priorities to shape each session. This approach helps when someone wants a safe place to be heard and to set personal goals.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to calm the mind and reduce reactivity. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and for anyone who wants to build steady coping skills. Motivational interviewing is a conversational method that helps people find their own reasons to change and move toward goals, which can be helpful for career shifts or life transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has worked before. Together they decide whether to use client-centered listening, mindfulness exercises, motivational interviewing, or a mix of methods to reach those goals.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging helps keep a conversation going between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to continue progress from different locations.
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- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Maryland
- Languages
- English
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