About Lisa S. Lombard, Ph.D.
Lisa Lombard is a licensed clinical psychologist in Illinois and has been providing general and specialized clinical services to children, adolescents, families, and adults for over 20 years. After earning her undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Chicago, and completing an APA approved clinical internship in Chicago, she started her career in the Washington D.C. area. Approximately 14 years later, she returned to Chicago and developed an independent private practice located in Oak Park, Illinois, with additional office hours available near Navy Pier in Chicago. She also consults at an independent elementary school in Chicago, supervises psychology graduate students, and conducts clinical research on resiliency in preschoolers.
Within her general psychology practice, she has developed expertise to offer specialized services in several areas. These include (1) hypnotherapy for adults and children, (2) evaluations and consultation regarding twice exceptional children, and (3) a mind-body approach to coping with infertility.
Dr. Lombard’s treatment orientation weaves several complimentary threads together to meet the needs of her patients. She blends a fundamental psychodynamic understanding of how people develop, form their identity, interact with others, cope with problems, and maintain their self-worth with her training in hypnosis, cognitive behavioral techniques, and play therapy. This permits her to offer individual, family, and group psychotherapy to help those who face depression, anxiety, loss, relationship challenges, and the stress of habit and health problems.
In addition to therapy, Dr. Lombard conducts psychological evaluations of children and adolescents ranging from about 3 to 21 years of age. These assessments pertain to cognitive ability and IQ, school readiness, understanding educational challenges and developing strategies to support students, the identification of learning disabilities and RTI effectiveness, giftedness (often among the twice exceptional or those with a co-occurring learning disability), and neuropsychological screenings of memory, attention, and executive functioning.
Dr. Lombard combines her private practice work with additional professional activities. Currently, she is a psychological consultant to the Frances Xavier Warde School in Chicago, IL. There, she works with preschool and elementary-age students (as well as teachers and parents). Previously, she was an Associate Professor in the Child and Adolescent Track of the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She continues in her role as Research Mentor to graduate students who assist her in studying emotional regulation and resiliency in preschoolers, and executive functioning in children with cognitive processing concerns. Immediately before returning to Chicago in 2006, she maintained her private practice in Virginia and was Coordinator of The Cognitive Assessment Clinic at George Mason University (Fairfax, VA).
Credentials
Dr. Lombard’s education, training, and professional experiences include earning a doctorate in psychology (Human Development) from the University of Chicago and completing an APA approved clinical internship at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute. She is a licensed clinical psychologist in Illinois, and maintains licensure status in Maryland and Virginia. She is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and the Illinois Psychological Association.