About Lisa
Lisa Allen is an LCSW with 25 years of clinical experience helping people navigate intense emotional challenges.
Background and approach
She has spent her career guiding clients through stress and anxiety, relationship difficulties, trauma and grief, and a range of concerns including bipolar disorder, ADHD, eating and sleeping struggles, anger, and compassion fatigue. Her work also includes attention to LGBT issues and intimacy-related matters, as well as life transitions such as career shifts and parenting pressures.
Lisa emphasizes a compassionate, collaborative approach that centers each person’s individual story. She blends practical, solution-focused techniques with mindfulness practices to help clients build resilience, challenge limiting beliefs, and develop actionable strategies for daily life.
Additional areas of emphasis include forgiveness, cultivating self-love, and clarifying life purpose. Sessions are tailored to the needs and goals presented by each client, and she aims to foster greater self-understanding and more authentic connections with others.
Practicing in Illinois, Lisa brings steady clinical experience and a commitment to respectful, strengths-based care. Her style balances empathy with structured guidance so clients can move from insight to meaningful, sustainable change.
Mindful and Solution-Focused Care Online
Mindfulness Therapy in her practice teaches clients to notice thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations with curiosity and nonjudgment. This approach can help reduce reactivity to stress and support regulation when working through anxiety, grief, or trauma-related reactions. Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on identifying strengths and small, achievable steps toward a client’s goals, making it useful for addressing relationship challenges, career decisions, and coping with life changes.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process; the therapist works with each person to determine what combination of mindfulness practices and solution-focused strategies best fits their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions evolve as progress is made, with methods adjusted based on what is most effective for the individual.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to access consistent care from Illinois without commuting, support quick check-ins between sessions, and allow work to continue during life transitions or busy periods.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English