About Dia
Dia Lieberenz is an Illinois-licensed counselor (LCPC) with 13 years of clinical experience supporting people through a wide range of emotional and life challenges.
Background and approach
She focuses on stress and anxiety, mood concerns such as bipolar disorder and depression, and issues common to LGBT clients, while also addressing relationship and family difficulties, trauma and grief, addiction, and struggles with sleep, intimacy, and self-esteem.
Dia approaches each person as the expert on their own life and builds on existing strengths to help clients pursue meaningful change. Her style blends evidence-based methods with a compassionate, client-centered stance that aims to empower rather than direct.
Dia encourages bravery in taking the first steps toward a happier, more fulfilling life and offers support through transitions, caregiver stress, communication problems, anger, and isolation or loneliness. She works collaboratively to help people develop coping skills and practical strategies tailored to their goals.
Evidence-Based Approaches for Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) invites clients to clarify what matters most and practice skills that increase psychological flexibility; it can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and building practical coping strategies for symptoms like panic, mood disorders, and insomnia. Mindfulness Therapy emphasizes present-moment awareness and stress reduction techniques that support emotion regulation and resilience.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process and is handled collaboratively. Dia works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then integrates elements from different approaches as needed to create a tailored plan that aligns with the client’s needs and pace.
Online therapy here is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility in how people access care. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life changes, and practice new skills between meetings while staying connected to a licensed professional.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English