About Lisa
Lisa Bicket is a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Illinois. She has 22 years of experience helping people face depression, anxiety, stress, and major life changes. Lisa focuses on practical steps people can use day to day and keeps sessions straightforward and caring.
Her work centers on understanding each person’s situation and strengths. She helps clients strengthen self-worth and cope with relationship tensions, parenting strain, grief, and trauma. Sessions often cover communication problems, anger, sleep difficulties, and the ups and downs of mood disorders.
Background and approach
Lisa uses an approachable style that mixes listening with goal-focused conversation. She supports people through transitions such as divorce or changes in caregiving roles. She also addresses challenges tied to aging, chronic illness, neurodiversity, and blended family issues.
In session, she helps clients build resilience and practical skills for everyday life. Clients learn clearer communication, problem-solving strategies, and ways to manage stress and overwhelm. The aim is steady improvement through realistic steps, not quick fixes.
Lisa works collaboratively and respects each person’s pace and choices. Her practice emphasizes honesty, warmth, and steady support while people work toward their goals.
How Lisa’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person’s perspective and building a trusting working relationship. It is useful when someone needs a supportive space to sort feelings and set personal goals.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, which helps with anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and stress management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Lisa will collaborate with clients to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences, and she adjusts strategies over time if something isn’t helping.
Online sessions make regular contact easier for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text-based messaging suit short updates, ongoing coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and maintain steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- 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
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English