About Lisa
Lisa Lucchese is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with 21 years of experience. She works with people facing grief, low self-esteem, career struggles, and big life changes. Lisa focuses on practical steps that help people feel steadier and more capable.
She aims to treat everyone with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are shaped around each person’s needs and goals. Lisa helps clients identify inner resources and small techniques that bring relief and build confidence.
How Lisa works
Her practice includes attention to compassion fatigue and workplace stress. She also supports concerns such as body image, postpartum depression, isolation, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and recovery from disaster. Lisa has experience with issues tied to autism, intellectual disability, and young adult transitions.
When helpful, she blends creative arts elements like art, music, or movement into sessions. These activities can open new ways to express feelings, reduce tension, and imagine personal strengths. The creative work is added at the client’s pace.
Lisa uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and adapts the approach to the person in front of her. She focuses on clear, doable strategies rather than long lectures. The goal is to help people find forward steps they can actually use.
People who are ready to try different tools, explore purpose, or rebuild after loss may find this approach useful. Lisa emphasizes steady progress, respect, and collaboration in every step.
What Lisa works with
The areas below are the ones Lisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Grief
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Forgiveness
- Hoarding
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Postpartum depression
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Online support options
Approaches and online therapy that fit your life
Lisa works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change. One common approach she uses emphasizes identifying small, manageable steps to improve mood and confidence; this helps with low self-esteem, career uncertainty, and daily coping. Another approach brings in creative arts elements like drawing, music, or movement to help people express feelings they find hard to put into words and to notice strengths more clearly.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest options that match what you want to work on. Together you can try different methods and adjust the plan until it feels helpful and realistic for your life.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging is useful for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier. These options let people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping continuity of care with licensed professionals.
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