About Carissa
Carissa Alt-Frankard is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 11 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people navigate major life changes and everyday struggles. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, depression, and attention-related concerns such as ADHD.
Carissa aims to build a warm, straightforward connection in sessions. She listens first and helps people name what matters most to them. Many clients come for help with relationships, family problems, or parenting strain.
Background and approach
She also supports people dealing with self-esteem, body image, and the emotional fallout of grief or guilt. Career worries, finding life purpose, and social anxiety come up often for those she sees. Carissa pays attention to practical steps that can be tried between sessions.
Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth. She uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness to help people break unhelpful patterns and notice new options. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused techniques are used to set clear goals and build momentum.
Carissa works with women on issues around pregnancy, childbirth, and body image, and she sees many young adults facing workplace pressure and isolation. She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different rhythms of life. Sessions are held in English and she practices across Wisconsin.
People who prefer a calm, goal-oriented therapist who also values empathy may find her approach helpful. She guides clients toward small changes that add up, while honoring each person's pace and priorities.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and listening closely so clients feel heard and understood. It helps when someone needs a calm space to sort through emotions and decide what matters most.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It offers practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and develop new habits, which can help with anxiety, depression, and concentration challenges.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus. It can be helpful for stress, rumination, and attention-related difficulties like ADHD symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then try methods that fit those needs. Clients and the therapist decide together what to try and adjust over time.
Online sessions are available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy week. Video is useful for full sessions and nonverbal cues, phone can be lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging can work for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options offer flexibility so people can keep progressing even with a changing schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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