- Strengths based
- Warm and direct
- Animal-assisted experience
About Alisia
Alisia Quigley-Holmbeck is a licensed clinical social worker in Illinois with 16 years of professional experience. She brings a down-to-earth style and a practical focus to sessions. She aims to make it easier for people to talk about hard things and to take small steps forward.
Her background includes psychiatric crisis work and a range of animal-assisted interventions such as therapeutic riding and equine-assisted psychotherapy. Those experiences inform a hands-on, strengths-based way of working. She looks for what already helps a person and builds on it.
In sessions she creates an open space for thoughts and feelings to be shared without judgment. She uses appropriately timed humor to ease intensity when it helps. Conversations tend to be straightforward and goal-oriented while staying warm and human.
Alisia helps people facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. She also addresses concerns linked to abandonment, attachment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, body image, and communication problems.
Her approach supports practical coping skills alongside exploring family of origin issues and emotional patterns. She encourages clients to notice small shifts and to try new behaviors between sessions. Taking a first step can feel hard, and she offers steady support through that process.
Approaches that guide online work and fit
Alisia draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and emotional processing. One approach emphasizes building coping skills and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and improve mood; it teaches strategies people can use between sessions. Another approach centers on processing trauma and abuse at a pace the person can manage, helping them make sense of painful memories and reduce their hold on daily life.Choosing the best approach happens together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then adapt methods over time. Clients are invited to try different strategies and give feedback so the plan fits their needs.
Confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, letting people meet from work breaks or between errands and reducing travel time. It can also allow shorter check-ins when schedules require them or make sessions possible when in-person visits would be difficult. The focus remains on practical progress and making therapy work within everyday routines.
Areas of expertise
Additional focus areas
Experience
16+ years
Credentials
Illinois
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What concerns does she help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, depression, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care related concerns and attachment issues.
What is her therapy style like?
The style is straightforward and strengths based. Sessions mix practical coping skills with chances to talk about emotions in a nonjudgmental way, and appropriate humor may be used to ease intensity.
What experience does she bring?
She has 16 years of professional experience, including psychiatric crisis work and animal-assisted therapies such as equine-assisted psychotherapy and therapeutic riding.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and practices in Illinois.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
Are international clients accepted?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability, and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I start a therapy relationship?
Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.