About Lisa
Lisa Whittingham is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience working in Illinois. She creates a calm, respectful space where people can talk about what feels hard and find clear steps to feel better. She keeps language simple and practical so parents and busy adults can follow along easily.
Her work covers many concerns such as stress, anxiety, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, and ADHD. She also helps people dealing with trauma, parenting strain, caregiver stress, sleep and eating difficulties, and career uncertainty.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on everyday problems and usable tools rather than jargon. Lisa uses a blend of approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and DBT skills to manage strong emotions and improve communication.
She also uses trauma-focused methods and EMDR when past events keep affecting daily life, and integrates mindfulness practices for present-moment coping. Her style is warm and direct. She helps people set small, achievable goals and practices real-world skills between sessions.
Progress is discussed in plain terms so clients know what changed and what still needs work. Lisa speaks English and Italian and has worked with people facing complex family dynamics, chronic illness, abandonment concerns, body image struggles, and compassion fatigue. Her aim is to help each person build resilience and more satisfying day-to-day routines.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Lisa commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can reduce anxiety, depression, and stress. She also integrates Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication for heated moments.She may draw on trauma-focused therapy and EMDR techniques when past events continue to affect daily life, using steps that pace processing to each person’s readiness. Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process: the therapist and client review goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then adjust methods as progress unfolds.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls work well for deeper conversational work and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging suit brief check-ins, tracking progress, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for busy parents and people with variable 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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