Lisa Whittingham, LCPC

Lisa Whittingham is a licensed clinical professional counselor with 15 years of experience practicing in Illinois. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, grief, work strain, and relationship concerns. Her style is warm and practical and she focuses on small, usable steps that make daily life easier.

Clients meet someone who listens closely and helps break large problems into manageable parts. Sessions often include looking at thought patterns, practicing new ways to handle emotions, and building routines that support better sleep, eating, and coping. Lisa adapts her approach to each person's needs rather than using a single method for everyone.

Her background includes work with trauma, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and attachment-related concerns. She combines cognitive behavioral techniques with mindfulness and trauma-focused tools to help people process painful memories and rebuild stability. Lisa also uses skills from dialectical behavior therapy when emotions feel overwhelming.

She speaks English and Italian and works with people facing life transitions like career changes, aging, blended family challenges, and grief after loss. Many clients come for help with self-esteem, anger, or managing ADHD symptoms in daily life.

Therapy sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to therapist availability.

Therapeutic approaches for online healing

Lisa often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thought patterns and try new behaviors. CBT is practical and goal-focused, and it can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and day-to-day stress.

She also draws on Trauma-Focused Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to help process painful memories and reduce their hold on daily life. These approaches aim to make traumatic memories less overwhelming and to restore a sense of safety and control.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, symptoms, and preferences together and adjust methods over time. That collaborative planning helps match tools to what a person actually needs and wants to work on.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people work face-to-face from different locations. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in works best. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief, ongoing support between sessions or for people who prefer typing to speaking. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and changing schedules.