About Lizanne Chisholm
Counseling that feels composed, human, and professionally held.
Lizanne brings a calm, collaborative style to therapy, helping clients find clearer perspective, steadier emotional footing, and more aligned next steps.
Approach
Trauma-informed, person-centered, and holistic
Care is shaped with steadiness, emotional attunement, and practical support that respects the pace of real change.
Style
Composed, collaborative, and professionally held
Sessions are designed to feel calm, structured, and useful so insight can become something clients can carry forward.
Focus
Clarity, emotional steadiness, and aligned next steps
The work supports both reflection and momentum, pairing deeper understanding with grounded decisions in daily life.
Practice presence
Steady, collaborative care shaped around dignity, privacy, and trust.
Professional philosophy
Therapy here is designed to feel respectful, grounded, and useful. Clients are met with warmth, but the work is also clinically structured and thoughtfully paced.
The process supports healthier patterns, clearer insight, and choices that feel more aligned over time.
Practice standards
Clinical structure
Sessions are carefully held, professionally paced, and designed to create clarity rather than pressure.
Holistic perspective
Emotional wellbeing is approached in context, with attention to the body, relationships, routines, and meaning.
Professional care
Calm, steady support that feels grounded, private, and professionally held.
Whole-person support
Holistic work here is not abstract or decorative. It is used with clinical care to support the nervous system, strengthen self-trust, deepen insight, and help change feel more sustainable in daily life.
The aim is support that feels emotionally humane, professionally grounded, and useful long after the session ends.
Holistic approach
Trauma-informed therapy
The work centers safety, pacing, consent, and trust so the therapeutic relationship feels steady from the beginning.
Holistic approach
Nervous system regulation
Sessions can include grounding, breath, body awareness, and settling practices that help clients feel more anchored.
Holistic approach
Mindfulness and reflection
Present-moment awareness is used gently to build clarity, emotional language, and a more compassionate inner response.
Holistic approach
Grief integration
Loss is approached with respect and spaciousness, making room for sorrow, memory, identity shifts, and meaning-making.
Holistic approach
Relational insight
Patterns in communication, attachment, and boundaries are explored to support healthier relationships and self-trust.
Holistic approach
Attachment-informed care
Past and present relationship dynamics are considered with care so clients can better understand closeness, protection, and trust.
Holistic approach
Somatic awareness
Body-based noticing helps clients recognize tension, depletion, and safety cues in ways that support steadier regulation.
Holistic approach
Values-based change
Therapy is tied to real life, helping clients make decisions and build routines that feel aligned, practical, and sustainable.
Background
A background shaped by long-term mental health work and heart-led coaching.
With over thirty years of experience in mental health, my work has been shaped by long hours alongside children, adolescents, adults, and families moving through grief, trauma, and life transitions. The pandemic sharpened what I most wanted this practice to offer — steady, emotionally attuned care that clients can carry into their daily lives.
I hold licensure as a professional counselor in Michigan, and I complement that clinical foundation with a Zen Coach certification in heart-based living and leadership. The goal is to meet each person with presence, curiosity, and enough practical structure that reflection becomes aligned, daily action.
Recent activity
“My devotion is in service to others in finding their sacred space in an infinite Universe. Each of us matters in a profound sense of what is Sacred.”
Certification
2021
Zen Coach Certification — Heart-based Living and Leadership
Credential
Licensed Professional Counselor
Based in Lake Orion, Michigan. The practice blends clinical counseling with heart-led coaching and is available in person and by telehealth across Michigan.
30+ years
Mental health field experience
Long-term work across counseling, education, and emotional support settings — centered on loss, trauma, and transition across the full lifespan.
Clinical focus
Children, adolescents, adults, and families
Counseling services spanning grief, trauma, divorce, job transitions, and family support, with play therapy and experiential modalities for younger clients.
Coaching extension
Zen Coach — Heart-based Living and Leadership
Heart-led coaching that pairs clinical insight with presence-based tools for leaders, parents, and anyone navigating a meaningful life pivot.
Broader work
Non-profit and organizational advising
Advising non-profits and organizations on mental health initiatives and program design, drawing on decades inside community mental health, grief support, and clinical settings.
Education and specialties
Education
Oakland University
1995 – 1997
Graduate counseling. Co-chaired the Graduate Counseling Student Association and the department's 1997 annual student conference; member of Pi Sigma Chi National Honor Society.
Specialties
Alongside direct client work, Lizanne also advises non-profits and organizations on mental health initiatives and program design.
Begin with fit
A first conversation can clarify whether this is the right support.
If you are looking for a calmer, more grounded therapeutic space, you are welcome to reach out with questions before taking the next step.