About Alisa
Alisa Neary is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people move forward from anxiety, trauma, and relationship harm. She brings a calm, straightforward style and aims to make sessions feel safe and nonjudgmental for people who are feeling overwhelmed. Alisa talks with each person about practical steps they can take right now to feel steadier and more in control.
With nine years in clinical practice in Illinois, she uses approaches that center the person's own goals.
Background and approach
She helps people name and reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people who are rebuilding self-esteem after abuse, separation, or other painful life changes. In sessions she combines client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral tools and mindfulness strategies.
That means she listens first, then helps identify unhelpful thinking and small behavior changes that can ease daily stress. Mindfulness skills are offered to help calm the body and focus attention during hard moments. Alisa also draws on motivational interviewing and narrative therapy to help people uncover what matters to them and rewrite the stories that hold them back.
She talks plainly about steps toward safety, healthier relationships, and self-acceptance. The work is collaborative and paced to each person's comfort. People meet with her using video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
Sessions are part of a subscription arrangement that can be canceled at any time and are conducted in English in Illinois.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and responding to what matters most to the person. In practice, that looks like starting sessions by asking about priorities and tailoring the pace and topics to the person's needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes. It can help with anxiety, depression, and stress by giving concrete tools to shift thinking and routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the person to try methods and adjust them based on what helps most. That means checking in about goals, trying CBT techniques or mindfulness practices, and changing course when something doesn’t fit.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and demonstrations of skills, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports day-to-day coaching and reminders. These options offer flexibility for people balancing work, caregiving, or mobility needs while keeping therapy practical and accessible.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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