Dia Lieberenz, LCPC

Dia Lieberenz is a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) practicing in Illinois with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, mood disorders, and life changes. She emphasizes the client as the expert in their own story and works to empower practical steps forward.

She uses a straightforward, respectful style in sessions. Conversations focus on the person in front of her and on building strengths. Dia helps people notice what matters to them and find ways to act on those values even when symptoms feel overwhelming.

Her approach draws from several evidence-informed methods, including acceptance and commitment ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, dialectical behavior skills, and mindfulness practices. Those methods are used to address worry, depression, panic, relationship strain, and caregiver stress. Motivational techniques are used when change feels stuck or confusing.

Parents and caregivers looking for support around burnout, communication strain, or grief can expect practical strategies and gentle problem-solving. She also works with people facing addiction, intimacy concerns, sleeping problems, and shame or isolation.

Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person’s needs. She encourages small, achievable steps and checks in about what’s working. For people in the LGBT community she offers an affirming, nonjudgmental space and focuses on goals the client names.

Approaches that translate well to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take value-driven steps, even when difficult thoughts or feelings are present. This can help with anxiety, depression, caregiver stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and offers concrete tools to reduce worry, panic, and low mood. Clients learn skills for managing symptoms and changing patterns that get in the way. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and improve sleep and emotional regulation.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try out strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Together they decide which combination of ACT, CBT, mindfulness, or related skills fits the person's needs and preferences.

Session formats are not listed here, so please confirm available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins on a busy day, or offering flexible scheduling around caregiving duties. It also lets people practice skills in their usual routines, so changes transfer to daily life more smoothly.