About Lisa
Lisa Amodeo helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, grief, and relationship strain. She works with adults who are navigating life changes, career pressures, parenting challenges, or struggles with mood and coping. Lisa uses straightforward, practical conversations to identify what feels most overwhelming and what small steps might help.
With 30 years of clinical work, Lisa brings experience from many care settings. She has provided services in detox, residential programs, partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient, and community mental health outpatient clinics.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with people struggling with substance use and co-occurring mental health issues. Lisa holds a Master of Educational Psychology in Mental Health Counseling from Southern Illinois University Carbondale and lists LCPC, LMHC as credentials. She draws on several therapy styles to match what a person needs in the moment rather than sticking to one method.
In sessions, she focuses on strengths and concrete tools. Conversations often include skills for handling anxiety, strategies for mood and sleep, and ways to repair or manage important relationships. She also addresses problems related to parenting, blended families, chronic illness, and first responder stress.
Outside of work, Lisa enjoys outdoor activities like scuba diving and CrossFit, and time with family and her animals. That practical, down-to-earth side shows up in her approach - caring, warm, and with a sense of humor.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck and choose actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns. It often helps with mood, sleep, and anxiety symptoms. Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences. That decision can change over time as needs and circumstances evolve. Because session format details were not specified in the biography, please confirm current online options before booking. In general, online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy schedule, reduce travel time, and allow a person to meet from wherever they are located. Some formats work better for focused skill practice and shorter check-ins, while others give more time for deeper emotional work. Licensed professionals can help match the approach and session rhythm to everyday routines so therapy feels manageable and useful.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- 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