About Lisa
Dr. Lisa Hammons helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, low self-esteem, and depression. She also supports those facing life transitions and changes.
Her approach is practical and straightforward. She aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable and hopeful. She has 14 years of professional experience and holds a Master of Science and the LPC credential.
Lisa keeps sessions focused on the issues you bring. Conversations are direct and nonjudgmental so people can name what feels hard and try small, doable steps forward.
Background and approach
Lisa pays attention to how everyday pressures affect mood and relationships. She often helps people sort communication problems, commitment questions, and codependency patterns. She works with concerns ranging from caregiver stress and aging issues to body image and eating-related struggles.
When life feels knocked off course by divorce, disaster, or other major events, she helps people build coping routines and practical strategies. She also addresses feelings like guilt, shame, emptiness, and trouble forgiving oneself or others. The work usually involves clear goals and skills you can practice between sessions.
Sessions are offered remotely to people in Mississippi. Conversations are offered in English. If you want a steady, calm guide who focuses on concrete steps and honest conversation, Lisa aims to provide that support.
Approaches and online care that focus on practical change
Evidence-based therapeutic techniques are used to address common concerns in straightforward terms. One common approach focuses on building coping skills and routine changes to reduce anxiety and low mood. This involves breaking problems into small steps, practicing new habits, and tracking what helps most over time. Another approach centers on communication and relationship patterns to improve how people express needs and set boundaries. It includes rehearsing conversations and testing new ways of responding in everyday interactions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped before. Together the client and therapist decide which techniques to try and adjust them as progress is made in sessions.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use visual cues and longer conversation time. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief updates, between-session coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats offer flexible ways to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, and daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English