About Alisia
Alisia Quigley-Holmbeck is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with 16 years of professional experience. She has worked in psychiatric crisis care and with animal-assisted and equine-assisted therapy. Her background includes therapeutic riding programs and hands-on community work.
She helps people manage stress and anxiety and cope with depression and life changes. She also addresses trauma and abuse, self-esteem, and motivation. Sessions aim to be judgment-free and straightforward, with room for honest feelings and practical next steps.
Background and approach
Her style blends a strengths-based outlook with a sense of humor when appropriate. That mix is used to lower tension and make difficult topics easier to talk about. She focuses on building confidence and practical coping skills that clients can use day to day.
Alisia has worked with concerns such as abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment questions, autism and Asperger Syndrome-related needs, body image, caregiver stress, and communication problems. She also supports people dealing with control issues, dependent personality patterns, disruptive mood dysregulation disorder, domestic violence history, emptiness, and family of origin difficulties.
People who choose her often want a direct, compassionate approach that emphasizes strengths and doable change. She encourages small steps toward clearer priorities and better daily functioning. The first step is simply reaching out and starting a conversation.
Approaches and what online therapy can offer
Two evidence-based approaches often used in her practice are trauma-informed care and strengths-based therapy. Trauma-informed care focuses on understanding how past hurt affects current feelings and reactions, and it helps people build safety and coping strategies. Strengths-based work looks for skills and resources a person already has and uses those to set small, achievable goals.She blends these approaches in a collaborative way. Together, the therapist and client decide which methods fit best for the person's goals and preferences. This means adjusting pace, using more skills practice, or focusing on emotion regulation depending on what the client needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and mirror in-person conversation, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief updates, homework check-ins, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English