About Lisa
Lisa Whittingham is a licensed clinician with 15 years of experience helping people through major life changes and emotional pain. She holds an IL LCPC credential and centers her work on listening first, then helping clients build clear, manageable steps forward. Her tone is warm and direct, aimed at people who feel stuck or overwhelmed and want straightforward support.
She helps with stress and anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma and abuse.
Background and approach
Relationship and intimacy concerns are part of her focus, along with parenting challenges and family conflict. She also addresses sleep and eating struggles, anger, low self-esteem, and career-related stress. Her approach mixes practical skills and deeper processing.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors. Mindfulness techniques are taught to manage strong emotions and reduce reactivity. For trauma, she uses trauma-focused methods and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing when appropriate to help reduce the intensity of painful memories.
She also draws on Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to teach emotion regulation and better interpersonal effectiveness. Sessions are offered in English and Italian, and she works with international clients. People can meet by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging depending on what fits their life.
Lisa aims to make therapy practical, accessible, and geared toward real-world changes.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical steps to test and shift thinking.EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps reduce the emotional charge of painful memories. It can help people who carry intense reactions from past events to feel less overwhelmed by those memories.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills offer concrete tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving communication. These skills are helpful for strong mood swings, relationship conflicts, and times when emotions feel uncontrollable.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their needs, goals, and comfort level. Together they try strategies, adjust them, and track what helps most over time.
Online sessions give practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when longer work is needed. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a short check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get support between calls and fit therapy into a busy schedule.
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What this counselor 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