Lisa Whittingham, LCPC

Lisa Whittingham is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with 15 years of experience in Illinois. She focuses on helping people facing major life changes and strong emotions. Lisa aims to make the first steps feel manageable for someone under stress or facing grief.

Her sessions emphasize clear, practical skills. She helps people notice unhelpful patterns, try small behavior changes, and practice new ways of coping. She also uses mindfulness exercises to reduce anxiety and improve sleep.

Lisa works with people who are dealing with trauma and abuse and with those trying to rebuild after loss. She supports people coping with chronic illness, caregiving strain, and the emotional load of cancer and chronic pain. She also addresses relationship and intimacy concerns, communication problems, and issues around attachment and abandonment.

Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and trauma-focused methods. Those tools are used to reduce symptoms, process painful memories, and teach skills for emotion regulation. Sessions balance emotional processing with straightforward skill-building.

Lisa speaks English and Italian and works with people across different stages of life. Her goal is to listen first, then build a plan together that fits each person's daily life and goals. This practical focus helps people move from surviving to feeling more capable and connected.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood. It is useful for stress, sleep problems, low mood, and coping with life changes.

EMDR works with memory processing to lessen the intensity of traumatic memories and the feelings tied to them. It is often used when past events continue to cause strong reactions in daily life.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals and preferences, try methods that make sense for the person's situation, and adjust as progress is seen. Clients and therapist decide together which tools to use and how to pace work.

The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm the available online options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, shorten check-ins when needed, and allow sessions without travel time. Licensed professionals can use mindfulness exercises, behavioral homework, and trauma processing techniques in remote sessions, helping people apply skills directly to their everyday routines.