About Lisa
Lisa Whittingham is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship or family concerns. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping clients feel heard and understood from the first session.
Lisa creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk through difficult feelings. She uses practical tools to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a clients pace and focus on goals the person finds meaningful. Her work often addresses trauma and related symptoms, including problems with sleep, anger, and intimacy. She also supports people dealing with life changes such as caregiving strain, chronic illness, career shifts, and bereavement.
Lisa pays attention to how past attachment experiences and abandonment concerns can shape present relationships. Therapeutic methods she draws on include cognitive and mindfulness-based techniques, skills for emotional regulation, and trauma-focused interventions. These are used in ways that match each person's needs, whether the priority is symptom relief or deeper processing of painful memories.
Sessions are offered in English and Italian and can include a mix of conversation, skill practice, and targeted exercises. Lisa aims to help people build resilience, clearer communication, and stronger self-esteem as they move toward recovery and change.
Approaches that work well online
Lisa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. CBT often includes short exercises and homework that translate well to video or text-based work.She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing techniques to address painful memories and trauma-related symptoms. These approaches involve careful pacing and grounding tools so memories can be processed without becoming overwhelming, and they can be adapted for remote sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, symptom patterns, and preferences, and then recommend a combination of methods. Plans are adjusted over time based on what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face work and skill practice, phone sessions can be a quicker check-in or better when bandwidth is low, and messaging lets people share thoughts between meetings. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Italian
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