Lisa Bicket, LCSW

Lisa Bicket is an Illinois licensed clinical social worker with 22 years helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, and big life changes. She combines practical tools with steady listening to help people manage everyday problems and feel more capable. Lisa uses plain language and short-term strategies to make therapy feel doable for busy lives.

Her practice centers on building skills for emotional regulation and clearer communication. Sessions often include working through relationship and family issues, parenting concerns, sleep troubles, grief, and coping after trauma or abuse. She also addresses complex matters like bipolar disorder, ADHD, chronic illness, and caregiver strain.

Lisa favors approaches that focus on problem solving and present-moment awareness. That means identifying unhelpful thinking, trying out different behaviors, and practicing mindfulness exercises tailored to each person. She emphasizes practical steps people can use between sessions to notice change.

People who benefit from her style are often looking for both understanding and concrete tools. Lisa aims to help clients build resilience, improve self-esteem, and find better ways to handle anger, intimacy-related concerns, or codependency patterns. She works at a pace set by each person.

Her background includes many years of direct clinical work across a range of life stages and problems. Lisa brings steady professional experience while keeping the focus on what a client wants to accomplish. She offers sessions in English and accepts international clients.

How Lisa’s approaches work online

Lisa uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in straightforward ways that translate well to online sessions. CBT focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and trying different behaviors to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and manage stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and working at the client’s pace to build trust and self-direction.

She often adds mindfulness techniques to help people notice thoughts and bodily responses in the moment. Mindfulness can support sleep problems, anger management, and emotion regulation by teaching short practices to use in daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lisa will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then tailor strategies to each person. That collaborative process helps decide whether to focus more on CBT skills, reflective listening, or brief solution-oriented steps.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversations and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions can be lighter on bandwidth and useful for quick check-ins. Live chat and messaging are good for short updates, checking in between sessions, or when typed expression feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy schedule.