Alisia Quigley-Holmbeck

Alisia Quigley-Holmbeck is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 16 years of professional experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, low self-esteem, depression, and life changes. Her background includes work in psychiatric crisis settings and several animal-assisted interventions. She practices in Illinois and conducts sessions in English.

Alisia draws on hands-on experience with animal assisted therapies, equine assisted psychotherapy, and therapeutic riding to add practical, experiential elements when appropriate. She often combines those experiences with straightforward conversations about coping, motivation, and confidence. Humor is used at times to ease tension and make difficult topics easier to address.

Her approach leans on strengths people already have. She works with clients to pinpoint practical steps for social, emotional, behavioral, and family-related struggles. Sessions focus on identifying what is getting in the way now and trying concrete ways to change those patterns.

People meet with her to talk about abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, control and dependency issues, and family of origin problems. She also addresses specific challenges such as disruptive mood dysregulation and recovery from domestic violence.

Alisia frames the work as collaborative and action-oriented. She helps clients set small goals, test new behaviors, and notice what changes. To begin, prospective clients are asked to follow the site flow to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

Approaches she uses and how online work fits

Alisia has experience with animal-assisted and equine-assisted therapies, which bring movement and hands-on activities into healing. These approaches can help people who respond well to experiential work and those who find verbal sessions alone hard to access. She also uses problem-focused, strengths-based methods that look for concrete steps and small behavioral changes to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before, then try approaches that fit the person's needs. This is a collaborative process where adjustments are made based on what works in practice.

If you want to book, confirm the current online session options before scheduling since formats are not listed here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week and to continue work between in-person appointments when that is useful. They can allow shorter check-ins, sessions without video if needed, or flexible scheduling that better matches daily life. Licensed professionals can explain which format will best support your goals during the matching and first-session planning.