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 life changes. Her work emphasizes clear, practical steps rather than jargon.
She speaks English and Italian and offers online options for therapy. Her style is warm and direct. She aims to make sessions feel safe and straightforward so clients can talk through hard things.
Background and approach
Lisa helps people sort through relationship and family tensions, address parenting concerns, and find better ways to communicate. Trauma and abuse, coping after loss, and burnout are common reasons people reach out. She uses structured approaches to help people process painful memories and reduce overwhelming reactions.
Lisa also supports those dealing with sleep and eating issues, chronic illness, and caregiving strain. In sessions she mixes skill-based work with reflection. That can mean learning stress-management tools, practicing communication skills, or working through upsetting memories at a manageable pace.
She focuses on what a person can do between sessions to feel steadier and more able to handle daily demands. Clients can expect clear goals and practical homework when that helps. Lisa centers each plan on the person in front of her, adjusting methods to match needs and preferences.
Her aim is to help people build resilience, better self-understanding, and reliable coping strategies.
Approaches that translate to online therapy
CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It often involves simple exercises and homework to reduce anxiety and improve daily functioning. DBT or Dialectical Behavior Therapy teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. It is useful for intense emotions, relationship struggles, and building steady routines. EMDR or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing helps people process traumatic memories in a structured way and reduce the power of past events over current life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to match methods to their needs, goals, and comfort level. Plans are adjusted over time so techniques fit the person rather than forcing a single model.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well for lower bandwidth or shorter check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging help with quick check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing support between sessions. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and maintain steady progress.
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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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