Carissa Alt-Frankard, LPC

Carissa Alt-Frankard is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Wisconsin with 11 years of clinical experience. She helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, and the ups and downs of major life change. Her work often focuses on building self-esteem and clearer communication so clients can move forward with more confidence.

She offers straightforward help for common struggles like grief, depression, and the daily strain of parenting or career pressure. Carissa also works with people managing ADHD, body image concerns, social anxiety, and feelings of isolation. Her aim is practical progress rather than jargon-filled therapy sessions.

Her style leans on cognitive behavioral therapy alongside client-centered and mindfulness approaches. She uses these methods to identify unhelpful thoughts, practice new skills, and create small habits that make a difference. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs.

Carissa pays special attention to women facing pregnancy, childbirth, and body image issues, and she supports young adults dealing with workplace stress and social pressures. She also helps people sort through guilt, shame, forgiveness, and questions about life purpose.

People meet her for an honest, respectful space to talk and to try tools that fit their life. Her work is grounded in compassion and clear steps people can use between sessions to build resilience and healthier patterns.

How online approaches and practical tools work together

Carissa commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thinking patterns and practice new ways of responding to stress and anxiety. CBT is goal-oriented and often involves homework like tracking thoughts or trying small behavioral experiments.

She also draws on client-centered therapy to create a supportive environment where the person’s goals guide the work. That approach focuses on listening, validation, and helping people clarify what matters most to them.

Finding the right approach is part of the process and she works together with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and daily life. Decisions about techniques and pace are collaborative and revisited as progress is made.

Online therapy offers practical benefits for people with busy schedules or limited local options. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill practice, phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is low, and live chat or text-based messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit a short session into a work break. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent and to apply new skills in real life.