Lisa Hughes, MD, LCPC
Licensed in Maryland · 7 years in practice
Lisa Hughes is a licensed clinical professional counselor and medical doctor practicing in Maryland.
License and registration
- LCPC, Maryland
- LC11388 · expires January 2027
- NPI
- 1417475955 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 7
- Languages
- English
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About Lisa
Lisa Hughes is a licensed clinical professional counselor and medical doctor practicing in Maryland. She brings seven years of counseling experience and a long history in mental health work to sessions. Lisa focuses on helping adults manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, grief, and career concerns.
She also addresses relationship issues and compassion fatigue. Lisa blends straightforward listening with practical steps that people can use between sessions. She meets people where they are and helps them build clearer goals.
Background and approach
Her approach draws on client-centered work, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused techniques to fit each person's needs. Her background includes years of service in mental health and graduate training in clinical counseling. Lisa trained for clinical mental health counseling at Johns Hopkins University and combines that training with everyday strategies to support change.
She aims for short-term achievable plans as well as deeper personal work when needed. In sessions she pays attention to cultural context and to individual life stories. This means looking at how values, background, and daily demands shape feelings and choices.
She often helps people sort priorities, improve communication, and find ways to feel more confident. Lisa describes therapy as a collaborative effort. She listens, reflects what she hears, and offers tools tailored to what a person wants to change.
People who want a practical, respectful approach to common adult concerns may find her style helpful.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Lisa lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Relationship issues
- Grief
- Career difficulties
- Abandonment
- Communication problems
- Forgiveness
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Lisa names
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Online support
Practical approaches adapted for online care
Client-centered therapy places the person at the center of the work. The therapist listens closely, reflects what she hears, and helps people name goals. This approach supports issues like low self-esteem, life transitions, and multicultural concerns by starting from the client's own perspective.Mindfulness therapy teaches simple techniques to notice thoughts and feelings without judgment. These practices can reduce stress and calm anxiety by helping people step out of automatic reactions. Motivational interviewing helps people clarify why change matters and find internal reasons to act, which is useful for career shifts, coping with life changes, and building self-love.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as those needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging can fit quick check-ins or daily support. These options help people fit therapy into work breaks, busy schedules, or quieter times at home.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does Lisa address?
She works with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, depression, grief, career challenges, and relationship concerns. Additional focuses include abandonment, communication problems, forgiveness, isolation, jealousy, life purpose, midlife crisis, multicultural concerns, self-love, women's issues, and workplace problems.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is collaborative and practical, using client-centered listening alongside mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies. Sessions emphasize clear goals and tools people can try between meetings.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has seven years of counseling experience and a longer history working in mental health settings prior to that. Her background includes graduate training in clinical mental health counseling.
Where is she licensed and practicing?
She practices in Maryland and is listed with the credentials MD and LCPC. Sessions are offered to people located in that region.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available online?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are sessions billed and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Begin by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.
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