About Lisa
Lisa Hess is a licensed professional counselor with 15 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She brings warmth, honesty, and a bit of humor to sessions. Lisa focuses on building understanding so people can make clearer choices and feel more capable in daily life.
Her approach is practical and person-focused. She uses client-centered methods to listen and reflect what matters most to each person.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviors. Narrative therapy helps people reframe their stories and find strengths they may have missed. Lisa also draws on existential ideas when people wrestle with meaning or big life questions.
Motivational interviewing is used when someone is unsure about making changes and wants to find their own reasons to act. Sessions aim to be collaborative and paced to each person's needs. She works with a wide range of concerns including parenting stress, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep and eating struggles, career questions, and ADHD-related challenges.
Conversations in sessions focus on clear steps and realistic strategies to try between meetings. Based in Michigan, Lisa offers multiple online session formats so people can pick what fits their life. The goal is to help clients build skills and notice small shifts that add up over time.
Working with therapeutic approaches online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the person. The therapist offers empathy and supports people in finding their own direction, which can help with anxiety, low mood, and decisions about change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions affect feelings. Online sessions using CBT often include clear tools and exercises to try between meetings to reduce worry and build better habits.
Narrative therapy helps people separate themselves from their problems and rewrite unhelpful stories. This approach can be useful for grief, trauma, and identity questions by highlighting strengths and new possibilities.
Finding the right mix of approaches is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods that match those priorities. Adjustments are made along the way based on what is working.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect - video calls for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions when bandwidth is limited, live chat for shorter check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work schedules, parenting routines, and other life demands while keeping the focus on practical progress.
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What this counselor 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