About Lena
Lena Longmire Lyons is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety, as well as those managing mood challenges like depression and bipolar disorder. She approaches work with a straightforward, respectful stance.
Lena believes clients are the experts on their own lives and that their strengths are the best tools for change. She offers steady support while people name goals and try new ways of coping.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses practical methods that help people notice unhelpful thoughts and experiment with different behaviors. She also draws on approaches that help people tune into emotions and build stronger connections in their relationships. Mindfulness and motivational strategies are used to increase focus and sustain small changes over time.
People who come to her often want clear steps and honest feedback. Lena helps break problems into manageable parts and creates simple, doable plans that fit daily life. She works with issues around grief, addiction, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and career transition as well as trauma, relationship concerns, and compassion fatigue.
Her practice is based in Florida and she conducts sessions in English. Lena aims to make the first steps less intimidating and to help clients move at a pace that feels right for them.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting connection. The therapist follows the client's pace, reflects what they say, and helps people discover their own solutions; this is useful for anyone needing steady support during stress or life change.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Sessions involve identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and trying specific behavior changes to reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. This approach can be helpful for practical problem solving and mood management.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods, and adapt based on what helps most. That collaboration makes it easier to choose techniques that match each person's needs and preferences.
Online therapy offers different ways to connect that fit busy schedules. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for deeper dialogue, phone sessions use less data and can be easier to join on the go, and live chat or text messaging provide short check-ins or step-by-step coaching between sessions. These options give flexibility so therapy can fit around work, caregiving, or school commitments while keeping momentum between meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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