About Lily
Lily Shinn is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of professional experience in Illinois. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people who are coping with grief, low self-esteem, major life changes, and challenges that interfere with daily life. Lily aims to make the first step feel manageable and affirms the courage it takes to begin therapy.
She creates an open atmosphere where people can talk about thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and conversational, aimed at understanding what matters most to each person. Lily listens for practical patterns and helps people try new ways of managing stress and strong emotions. Her work often addresses relationship concerns, intimacy-related issues, parenting strains, and career stress.
She also supports people facing chronic illness, caregiver strain, aging and geriatric concerns, and end-of-life or hospice related matters. Trauma, abuse, and family of origin themes are part of her clinical focus as well. Lily brings a calm, steady presence and uses proven therapeutic techniques to help people build coping skills and regain a sense of direction.
She tailors sessions to the pace and goals of each person, balancing emotional processing with practical steps to try between meetings. People meet with Lily over video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She works in English and holds an Illinois LCSW credential.
Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a session according to therapist availability.
Practical therapeutic approaches for online care
Many of Lily's sessions use evidence-based techniques focused on building coping skills and changing unhelpful patterns. One common approach teaches concrete skills for managing anxiety and stress, such as breathing, grounding, and short behavior changes that reduce overwhelm. These tools are useful for everyday symptoms and sudden spikes in worry.Another typical focus is grief processing and emotion regulation. This involves naming difficult feelings, making space for them, and finding small actions that help people move through loss and big life changes. This work often pairs emotional understanding with steps to restore routine and meaning.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lily collaborates with each person to match techniques to their goals, pace, and preferences. Together they try methods and adjust plans based on what feels most helpful and doable.
Online therapy with Lily uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to offer flexible options. Video is good for longer conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging allow for brief check-ins or ongoing notes between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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