About Lisa
Lisa Hess is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Michigan who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and parenting strain. She also supports those coping with trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep or eating disruptions, career questions, and ADHD-related challenges. Lisa aims to offer a warm and honest presence in sessions so clients feel heard and understood.
She brings 15 years of experience to her work and focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions.
How Lisa works
Lisa listens for each person’s strengths and builds on what already works. She uses straightforward tools to ease symptoms and to help people make clearer choices. Her style emphasizes a trusting relationship, open conversation, and a bit of lightness when it fits.
She believes that naming fears and doubts is often the first step toward meaningful change. Over time, clients often find they have more patience and kindness for themselves. Therapy can include short-term problem solving as well as deeper reflection about values and direction.
Lisa draws from several approaches to match the work to each person’s goals. Sessions are collaborative - she helps clients set practical goals and track progress. Sessions are offered in English and are delivered remotely by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
She works with the client to pick the format that fits their life and needs.
Lisa lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Lisa works with
The areas below are the ones Lisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's perspective. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what she hears, and helps people build confidence and self-compassion; this approach is useful for anxiety, self-esteem, and grieving.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It includes simple experiments and homework to change unhelpful patterns and can help with stress, worry, sleep, and mood problems.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lisa will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Decisions about which techniques to try are collaborative and can shift as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be good for quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit counseling into busy lives and different routines.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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