About Lisa
Lisa Allen is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of experience supporting people through hard emotional times. She focuses on common concerns like stress and anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and grief. Her practice also addresses issues such as sleep and eating problems, parenting stress, ADHD, and career worries.
Lisa practices in Illinois and uses compassion and plain talk to help people make changes that fit their lives. She helps clients identify small, doable steps and build habits that lower daily stress.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person needs. Her approach highlights self-love, forgiveness, and finding life purpose alongside practical coping skills. Lisa draws on mindfulness techniques to help people stay present and on solution-focused strategies to set short-term goals.
She works with a range of concerns from intimacy-related issues and self-esteem to bipolar mood challenges and compassion fatigue. In sessions she invites honest conversation about emotions and patterns. She helps clients challenge limiting beliefs and try new behaviors between meetings.
The aim is steady progress, not quick fixes, and she tailors work to each person’s situation. Clients interested in scheduling will choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and arrange times based on therapist availability. Sessions are offered in English and are provided via several online formats.
Mindfulness and Solution-Focused Care Online
Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple ways to notice thoughts and body sensations without getting swept away by them. It can help with anxiety, stress, sleep trouble, and managing strong emotions by building calm attention and awareness.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying practical next steps and small goals that move a person forward. It is forward-looking and useful for handling relationship problems, life transitions, and day-to-day coping challenges.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Lisa works with each person to figure out what methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. She combines mindfulness practices and solution-focused tasks when that makes sense for the client.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well when visual cues help the conversation. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good option during a short break. Live chat and text messaging support quick check-ins, ongoing encouragement, and brief problem-solving between longer sessions. These formats let people fit therapy into busy lives and keep work moving forward even when schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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