Lisa Allen
Hopeful guidance for everyday family challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lisa
Lisa Allen is a licensed clinical social worker with 25 years of practice based in Illinois. She focuses on common life struggles like stress, anxiety, grief, and relationship challenges. Lisa also supports people facing trauma, issues with intimacy, and concerns around parenting, sleep, and eating.
She brings steady, calm experience to the conversation and uses practical methods to help people move forward. Lisa uses simple, direct tools in sessions. She draws on mindfulness techniques to help people notice reactions in the body and calm down.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused strategies to set clear goals and build small, manageable steps toward them. Sessions aim to be collaborative and grounded in what each person needs right now. Her practice includes work on self-esteem, life purpose, forgiveness, and self-love.
She has experience with ADHD and with supporting people who identify as LGBT. Over time she helps people develop routines and skills that reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning. Conversations are respectful and paced to each person’s readiness.
Lisa favors straightforward plans rather than long lists of tasks. She helps people practice new habits between sessions so changes stick. Clients come away with clearer priorities, calmer responses, and practical next steps.
Lisa combines long experience with a down-to-earth style aimed at helping people handle real family and parenting pressures and other everyday challenges.
Practical approaches for online support
Mindfulness Therapy helps people notice stress and physical reactions in the moment. It uses simple breathing and awareness exercises to reduce reactivity and make choices feel clearer. This approach can be useful for anxiety, grief, and emotional overwhelm.Solution-Focused Therapy concentrates on what a person wants to change and the small steps that will get them there. It emphasizes concrete goals and building on what already works. This method is helpful for parenting concerns, relationship problems, and day-to-day coping skills.
Choosing the right method is a team effort. The therapist will listen to the client's needs, try approaches that fit, and adjust based on how well they work. Clients are involved in deciding goals and pacing so therapy stays useful and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by phone, video calls, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. These options make it easier to fit therapy around family schedules, work, and caregiving. The variety of formats supports continuity of care when in-person visits are difficult.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
Solution-Focused Therapy
Rather than examining the problem at length, this looks at what is already working and builds on it. Sessions tend to be practical and forward-looking, with small achievable steps, which translates readily to shorter online conversations.
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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
Next step
Talk to Lisa
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- Stop at any point