Lisa Zwagerman, LPC

Lisa Zwagerman is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Wisconsin. She brings three years of counseling experience and a background that includes mental health counseling, career counseling, and life coaching. Lisa focuses on helping people navigate stressful seasons and major life changes with practical support and steady presence.

She works in a warm and down-to-earth way. Sessions are collaborative and aim to meet clients where they are. Lisa emphasizes listening, practical problem solving, and encouragement so people feel less overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, grief, or caregiving strain.

Her approach draws on client-centered care and cognitive behavioral techniques. That means conversations center on the person's goals and real-life steps to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. Lisa also uses mindfulness and solution-focused methods when they fit the situation to build coping skills and short-term progress.

Clients often bring concerns such as stress, relationship and family problems, parenting challenges, chronic illness or pain, grief, career transitions, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. She also supports those facing adoption and foster care issues, aging or caregiver stress, and cancer-related challenges.

Sessions aim to be practical. Lisa helps people identify small, manageable changes and practices they can try between meetings. She describes the therapeutic relationship as a partnership where courage to ask for support is valued and met with steady, hopeful guidance.

How her methods translate to online therapy

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client's priorities. The therapist aims to provide a supportive space where the person leads the topics and decisions. This approach helps with stress, life changes, and relationship concerns by centering each session on what matters most to the client.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses practical exercises and small experiments to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with medical or caregiving challenges.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which combination of methods fits their goals, needs, and preferences. That might mean mixing client-centered listening with CBT exercises or adding solution-focused steps for quick progress.

Confirm the available session formats before booking, as the biography does not list specific options. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days, reduce travel time, and keep follow-up brief when needed. They also allow for different kinds of check-ins, such as shorter sessions or focused skill practice, to match everyday schedules without promising a particular format.