About Lisa
Lisa Whittingham is an Illinois-licensed clinician with 15 years of experience helping people navigate major life changes and emotional challenges. As an LCPC she blends evidence-based methods with a compassionate, strengths-focused stance to help clients make practical progress.
Background and approach
Her work concentrates on concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting and family strains, sleep and eating difficulties, anger, self-esteem, career concerns, and ADHD. Her practice emphasizes collaborative treatment that targets both immediate coping needs and longer-term growth.
Lisa uses a mix of cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness skills, trauma-focused techniques, and other structured interventions to reduce distress, improve communication, and build resilience. She also addresses related areas including attachment and abandonment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver strain, chronic illness and pain, body image, and codependency.
Fluent in English and Italian, she accepts international clients and offers flexible session formats including video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Prospective clients can begin by completing a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling sessions according to availability with a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Online Use of Evidence-Based Approaches
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, stress, and career or self-esteem concerns by teaching practical skills to shift thinking and improve functioning.
Trauma-Focused Therapy and EMDR target the emotional and physiological impacts of past traumatic experiences. These approaches help process difficult memories and reduce the intensity of trauma-related reactions, supporting recovery from abuse, PTSD symptoms, and other trauma-related distress.
Finding the right therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist works with each person to explore goals, preferences, and symptom patterns, then tailors a mix of interventions that fits the individual's needs rather than relying on a single method.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. These formats make it easier to maintain continuity of care during life transitions, accommodate varied routines, and access licensed professionals from different locations while adapting approaches like CBT, trauma-focused work, and mindfulness for remote sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English, Italian