About Luanne
Luanne Maniacek welcomes people who are ready to make changes and find more balance. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and she brings 40 years of clinical experience to sessions. Luanne focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and caregiver strain.
She uses a strengths-based style that looks for what is already working. Luanne listens closely and asks questions that get to the heart of a problem.
Background and approach
She mixes conversational support with gentle challenges to help people try new habits and perspectives. Her work includes motivational interviewing to build commitment and cognitive approaches to shift unhelpful thinking. She also draws on client-centered and psychodynamic ideas to better understand patterns that repeat over time.
These methods are used to address mood disorders, codependency, substance use, and feelings of isolation. Luanne has experience supervising other clinicians and leading crisis intervention teams, which informs her steady, experienced approach. She has worked across many ages, cultural backgrounds, and orientations while practicing in Illinois.
Sessions are geared toward real-life goals like improving relationships, managing mood swings, coping with life transitions, and reducing addiction-related harm. Conversations focus on concrete steps and skills people can practice between sessions to see gradual change.
Therapeutic approaches that work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify values and take action toward them even when strong feelings are present. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with major life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on noticing and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and mood disorders and to support addiction recovery.Choosing a therapeutic approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they will try methods that fit and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for in-depth conversations and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while fitting into everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English