About Lisa
Lisa Calloway helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief, and depression. She is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - in Illinois with 24 years of experience. Her approach is straightforward and practical.
She aims to make first steps feel attainable for someone feeling overwhelmed. Clients meet a calm, nonjudgmental listener who focuses on what matters most to them. Sessions are a place to talk through immediate problems and to build realistic coping steps.
Background and approach
Lisa balances understanding with concrete tools that can be used between appointments. She often uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s pace and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to spot patterns of thinking and try small changes that reduce symptoms.
Together these approaches help with panic, mood shifts, social anxiety, and workplace stress. Lisa also addresses caregiving strain, communication breakdowns, divorce and separation stress, first responder challenges, and feelings of isolation. She helps people explore life purpose, midlife transitions, and women’s issues in a down-to-earth way.
Seasonal Affective Disorder, self-love work, and relationship communication are part of her regular focus. Her goal is to support and empower. She invites people to take manageable steps toward a more fulfilling life while offering steady, experienced guidance along the way.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Lisa combines client-centered therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people feel better and solve concrete problems. Client-centered work means the therapist follows the person’s lead, listens fully, and prioritizes what the individual wants to address. This approach is useful when someone needs a safe, steady place to talk through feelings and make sense of life events.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at thoughts, feelings, and actions and how they interact. Through simple exercises and gradual experiments, CBT helps reduce panic attacks, manage mood swings, and change unhelpful thinking patterns. It is often used alongside client-centered conversations to create both understanding and change.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods match their goals, needs, and preferences. That joint decision-making helps keep sessions focused and useful.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video is good for a fuller conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat and messaging suit brief check-ins or those who prefer typed communication. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping therapy consistent.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 24 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English