About Alisia
Alisia Quigley-Holmbeck is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) practicing in Illinois with 16 years of professional experience. Her background includes psychiatric crisis work and a range of animal-assisted interventions such as equine-assisted psychotherapy and therapeutic riding.
Background and approach
She brings practical experience addressing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, depression, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. Quigley-Holmbeck emphasizes a strengths-based stance that encourages clients to draw on resilience while confronting social, emotional, behavioral, family, biological, and mental health challenges.
She strives to establish an open, nonjudgmental space where thoughts and feelings can be shared, and she sometimes uses appropriately timed humor to ease the intensity of difficult topics.
Her practice also attends to issues such as attachment and family of origin concerns, body image, caregiver stress, communication and control difficulties, and experiences related to adoption, abandonment, or domestic violence. She supports people as they take steps toward greater fulfillment and offers guidance through transitions with steady, practical support.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Alisia Quigley-Holmbeck draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on strengths and practical coping skills. One common component is trauma-informed care, which helps people process and manage the effects of trauma through paced, supportive interventions tailored to the individual's needs. Another element is strengths-based therapy, which identifies personal resources and builds on them to improve coping, self-esteem, and problem-solving skills.
Choosing the right therapeutic approach is part of the collaborative process. The therapist works with clients to assess needs, goals, and preferences, and together they determine which techniques and pacing feel most effective and comfortable for the client.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for scheduling and communication styles. These formats make it easier to maintain consistency in care while fitting therapy into daily life, and they allow licensed professionals to provide regular support and skill-building between in-person appointments if desired.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English