About Lisa
Lisa Amodeo offers straightforward, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, or relationship strain. She works with individuals who are coping with mood changes, substance concerns, parenting stress, or the fallout from trauma and loss. Lisa writes in plain terms and focuses on small steps that can make daily life feel more manageable.
With three decades of clinical experience, Lisa brings a history of work across many care settings.
Background and approach
She earned a Master of Educational Psychology in Mental Health Counseling from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1992 and holds Illinois LCPC and Florida LMHC credentials. Her background includes treatment in detox, residential programs, partial hospital and intensive outpatient levels, and community mental health outpatient services. Her approach centers on identifying personal strengths and building practical skills.
She draws on methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, and client-centered work to help people manage symptoms and improve relationships. Sessions often focus on clear strategies for coping, communication, and emotional regulation. Lisa also brings experience with addictions and co-occurring concerns, which informs how she addresses triggers, relapse planning, and recovery supports.
She pays attention to issues like sleep, appetite, anger, and self-esteem because these affect everyday functioning. Outside of practice, Lisa enjoys outdoor activities, crossfit, scuba diving, and time with family and her animals. Her style is warm, down-to-earth, and often laced with gentle humor to help people feel at ease.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and getting unstuck from avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying thought patterns and changing unhelpful behaviors with practical exercises and homework. CBT often helps with anxiety, phobias, sleep problems, and mood concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills, which can be helpful for intense emotions and relationship stress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and daily challenges to decide which methods to prioritize. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so they fit the clients needs.
Because the biography does not list specific session formats, confirm available online options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy schedule, shorten travel time, allow a quicker check-in during a work break, or avoid needing to be on camera when bandwidth is limited. Licensed professionals can use the same ACT, CBT, or DBT tools in remote sessions as they do in person, adapting exercises and homework so progress can continue between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- 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
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
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