About Lisa
Lisa Zwagerman is a licensed professional counselor in Wisconsin with three years of practice. She brings experience as a mental health counselor, a career counselor, and a life coach. Lisa aims to be a steady partner as people move through change or crisis.
She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar concerns, and grief. She also helps people manage parenting strain, relationship and family conflict, eating concerns, anger, and career transitions.
How Lisa works
Additional focuses include ADHD, compassion fatigue, adoption and foster care issues, aging and geriatric matters, autism and Asperger syndrome, chronic illness and pain, and caregiving stress. Lisa favors straightforward, person-centered work. She listens first to understand each person's goals and strengths.
From there she mixes practical skills and gentle reflection to build coping tools people can use day to day. Her approach often draws on cognitive behavioral methods and mindfulness exercises to address unhelpful thinking and reduce worry. She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas to help people set realistic goals and move forward.
Sessions can be practical and goal oriented or more reflective, depending on what someone needs. Lisa aims to offer a warm, understanding presence while helping people try new ways of responding to old problems.
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
- 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
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Wisconsin |
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Online support options
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and understanding the person's perspective. In practice this means sessions focus on the individual's goals and strengths while the therapist reflects and helps people find their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce worry and improve mood when practiced between sessions. Mindfulness Therapy uses short exercises in attention and breathing to help people feel steadier when stress rises and to notice automatic reactions.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with the person to decide which methods fit best based on current needs, goals, and preferences. Plans can be adjusted as progress is made or priorities change.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for full conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works well for quick check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a workday, care schedule, or busy home life while still working toward clear goals.
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