About Lisa
Lisa Hammes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 11 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, ADHD, and relationship or intimacy concerns. Her manner is warm and approachable, and she often brings a bit of humor to sessions to ease tension.
Clients can expect an interactive style where their experience guides the work. Lisa believes each person knows their own story and brings strengths that matter in therapy.
Background and approach
She meets people where they are and adapts her approach to fit real-life needs. Her work blends practical tools and reflective exploration. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
Mindfulness practices are introduced to build present-moment skills and stress management. Dialectical skills help with emotion regulation and distress tolerance when feelings run high. Lisa also draws on Jungian ideas and solution-focused methods when they suit a person's goals.
That mix allows short-term problem solving alongside deeper personal insight. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with room for exploring patterns that keep problems repeating. She aims to support everyday functioning - from managing work stress and parenting strain to coping with grief or life transitions.
For people navigating ADHD symptoms alongside mood or anxiety concerns, Lisa helps develop concrete strategies and coping plans. The focus is practical change you can use between sessions.
Using practical approaches online
Lisa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors, which can help with anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related challenges by creating clear strategies and task plans. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve focus and stress management.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That may mean starting with action-focused CBT tools, adding mindfulness exercises, or using dialectical skills for emotion regulation as needed.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for exercises and feedback. Phone sessions can fit into work breaks or days with low bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or get short, on-the-go support. These options help people maintain consistent care while fitting therapy into busy schedules.
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What this therapist 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
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