About Lisa
Lisa Hammes is a licensed professional counselor in Wisconsin with 11 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting concerns, and relationship or intimacy issues. She also supports clients facing grief, career questions, ADHD, bipolar mood concerns, compassion fatigue, and problems with self-esteem. Her style is warm and interactive.
She uses everyday language and a little humor when appropriate. Sessions aim to meet people where they are and build on strengths already present in the person’s life.
Background and approach
Lisa draws from several approaches rather than following a single method. She commonly uses client-centered techniques to keep sessions focused on the person's priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas help break unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are used for emotion regulation and distress tolerance when needed. She also brings mindfulness practices and some Jungian ideas about meaning and symbols for people who want them. Solution-focused strategies are used to set small, practical goals and track progress between sessions.
Lisa emphasizes collaboration. She works with each person to identify realistic steps, try techniques in daily life, and adjust the plan when something isn’t working. The goal is to build practical skills and clearer choices so people feel more capable handling tough moments and life transitions.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on your experience and priorities, letting the conversation follow what matters most to you while the therapist reflects and helps you clarify goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks down patterns of thought and behavior into small steps you can practice between sessions to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions and tolerating distress, which can be useful when emotions feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with you to identify your goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That shared decision-making helps match methods and pace to your needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth sessions and visual cues, phone sessions can fit a shorter break during the day or use less bandwidth, live chat supports quicker check-ins, and messaging lets you write thoughts between sessions. These options make it easier to fit consistent care into a busy life and to try strategies from CBT, DBT, or client-centered work in real time.
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What this counselor 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