About Dia
Dia Lieberenz is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 13 years of experience. She emphasizes a respectful, strengths-based approach and sees clients as the experts in their own lives. Dia encourages people to take small steps toward change while offering steady support along the way.
Clients come for many concerns including stress, anxiety, mood disorders, and addiction. She also helps with relationship and intimacy issues, grief, sleeping problems, parenting strain, and caregiver stress.
How Dia works
Additional focuses include ADHD, panic attacks, social anxiety, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her sessions are collaborative and plainspoken. She uses methods drawn from acceptance and commitment approaches, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, client-centered listening, and mindfulness practices.
In therapy she helps people notice what matters, change unhelpful behaviors, and build practical coping skills. Dia aims to make therapy doable for busy lives. She supports people through transitions like career shifts, complicated relationships, or the strain of caregiving.
She also addresses feelings such as guilt, shame, isolation, and compassion fatigue with concrete tools and steady reflection. People who want a direct, compassionate clinician who balances skillful strategies with warmth may find her approach helpful. She focuses on clear goals, realistic steps, and empowering clients to use their strengths between sessions.
Dia lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Dia works with
The areas below are the ones Dia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take steps toward a meaningful life, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and struggles with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and changing behaviors that keep problems going; it often includes specific exercises to practice between sessions and is helpful for panic, mood shifts, and sleep problems.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will invite clients to talk about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made so the approach fits each person's needs.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging can work for quick check-ins, brief coaching, or ongoing support between longer sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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