Lisa Whittingham, LCPC

Lisa Whittingham is a licensed clinical professional counselor (LCPC) in Illinois with 15 years of direct experience. She focuses on helping people who are facing major life shifts, overwhelming stress, or painful loss. Lisa uses a calm, straightforward style and creates a respectful space for people to talk honestly about what matters to them.

Clients can expect practical tools alongside emotional support. Lisa helps people manage anxiety, depression, and trauma symptoms while also addressing relationship and family concerns. She guides clearer communication, problem solving, and healthier coping habits that fit everyday life.

Her work often includes navigating grief, chronic illness, caregiving strain, and career-related stress. Lisa pays attention to how attachment, abandonment, and self-esteem issues affect choices and relationships. She also supports people with challenges around eating, sleeping, anger, and intimacy-related concerns.

Lisa integrates several approaches to meet specific needs, including cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness practices, trauma-focused techniques, and elements of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing and dialectical behavior strategies. She tailors those methods to each person’s goals rather than using a single fixed plan.

Sessions are offered in English and Italian, and she works with people across different regions, including international clients. Her practice aims to help people build resilience, notice patterns that hold them back, and take steps toward clearer values and more manageable days.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Lisa commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and trauma-focused methods in her work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Trauma-focused therapy helps people process past traumatic experiences and learn coping skills to reduce their ongoing impact.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review your history, current concerns, and goals, and together you will decide which methods to try first. Goals and techniques can be adjusted as progress unfolds so the plan stays useful and realistic.

Confirm the specific online session formats before booking, since the biography does not list them. Online work can still offer many practical benefits: it can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. Different approaches translate well to remote work through guided exercises, skills coaching, and trauma processing adapted for remote sessions.