Authentic Balance Counseling, PLLC

Lisa believes that every individual’s story is unique and that therapeutic treatment should be individualized as she reflects this in her authentic, genuine, and personalized therapeutic approach. Her eclectic approach to therapy derives from a multitude of modalities including principles and techniques from solution-focused, Adlerian, existential, acceptance and commitment, and cognitive therapies. She views human nature from a holistic and humanistic standpoint believing that through the counseling process as well as a client’s decision to change, positive transformation can occur in a person as a whole.

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Lisa is passionate about working with adult individuals and couples facing marital matters, divorce, anxiety, depression, trauma, life transition, self-worth, adjustment to change, and existential crisis. Lisa’s specialties include working with single mothers, blended family matters as well as working with teachers undergoing challenges at school and helping them achieve a healthy work/life balance.

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Lisa earned her bachelor’s degree from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, double majoring in Elementary Education and Psychology.  After a successful fifteen-year career in education, Lisa’s passion for helping others led her to pursue her dream of becoming a counselor and achieving a Master of Arts degree in Professional Counseling from Amberton University. Lisa is a trained mediator who will soon be a Parent Coordinator and Parent Facilitator.

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Lisa believes a positive therapeutic relationship is most important for her clients to be successful in the counseling process. She feels blessed to walk the counseling journey with the individuals she works with.