About Lisa
Lisa Zwagerman is a licensed professional counselor working in Wisconsin. She brings three years of clinical experience that blends mental health counseling, career guidance, and life coaching. Her style is warm and down-to-earth.
She aims to partner with people as they face hard seasons. She helps people manage anxiety, depression, grief, and the stress that comes with life changes. Lisa also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, relationship and family tensions, and work or career transitions.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how everyday life demands affect mood, energy, and functioning. Her sessions tend to be practical and focused on skills you can use between meetings. She uses client-centered methods to follow each person's pace and priorities.
She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of responding. Mindfulness and solution-focused strategies show up in her work to build small, reachable steps forward. Motivational interviewing can help when someone is unsure about change or needs a nudge to try something different.
Lisa emphasizes strengths and realistic goals rather than blame or quick fixes. People who prefer a supportive, collaborative approach often find this style helpful. She aims to create a comfortable space where concerns are heard and practical next steps are clear.
Lisa works with adults in Wisconsin and offers sessions in English.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's needs. Sessions start with the client's priorities and move at a comfortable pace, which fits well into conversations over video or phone. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors; it works well in online sessions because homework and skill practice can be reviewed between meetings.Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick strategies that match their goals and day-to-day life. That means trying things out, checking what helps, and adjusting methods when needed so the work stays useful.
Online formats make scheduling more flexible and reduce travel time. Video calls let you work face-to-face, phone sessions use less bandwidth, live chat is good for shorter check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing check-ins and brief coaching. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English