Lisa Amodeo
Compassionate counselor for parenting and family strain
- Credentials
- LCPC, LMHC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lisa
Lisa Amodeo is a licensed counselor who helps people facing family and parenting stresses, addiction concerns, anxiety, and grief. She brings a calm, straightforward style to sessions and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her approach aims to restore balance when daily life feels overwhelming.
With 30 years of clinical work, Lisa draws on counseling methods that emphasize values, skills, and emotional connection. She graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1992 with a Master of Educational Psychology in Mental Health Counseling and holds both LCPC and LMHC credentials.
Background and approach
Her background includes many years in substance use treatment and community mental health settings. Lisa has worked across levels of care such as detox, residential programs, partial hospitalization programs, intensive outpatient programs, and aftercare. She has supported people navigating co-occurring mental health concerns, depression, anger, relationship stress, work-life imbalance, and addiction recovery.
She uses a strengths-based stance to help people find hope and direction. In sessions she blends evidence-informed methods to match what each person needs. That can mean practicing new coping skills, talking through painful experiences, or focusing on steps to reduce risky behaviors.
The work is collaborative and paced to the person’s readiness. Outside of work she enjoys time outdoors, CrossFit, scuba diving, being on the water, and moments with family, friends, and her animals. She aims to bring warmth and a bit of humor into the therapeutic space.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Lisa uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to guide much of her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small, meaningful steps toward them even when feelings are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and trying practical behavior changes to reduce anxiety and mood symptoms.The therapist also brings a client-centered stance that prioritizes listening and building trust. Finding the right way forward is collaborative; she will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, comfort, and pace rather than imposing a single approach.
If you are considering online sessions, confirm the specific session types before booking so you know what formats are offered. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. Therapists can adapt exercises, skills practice, and emotional check-ins to remote sessions so that the work stays practical and focused on real-life changes.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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