About Lisa
Lisa Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and major life changes. She keeps things direct and practical in sessions so people can find relief and move forward. Her work focuses on everyday problems that get in the way of living well.
She helps people with depression, panic and anxiety, mood disorders, and trauma. She also supports those dealing with compassion fatigue, addictions, and difficult relationship patterns.
Background and approach
Lisa addresses complicated situations like co-morbidity, domestic violence, and hospice or end-of-life counseling with calm, steady attention. Her approach mixes structured skills and short-term goal work with deeper processing when needed. Lisa uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy to help people change unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills.
She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods to set realistic steps and keep progress moving. Sessions are straightforward and focused on what matters most to each person. Lisa listens closely, helps name patterns, and practices skills together during sessions so people leave with something to try.
She aims to make therapy a useful part of daily life, not just a place to talk. Based in Missouri, Lisa offers services in English. Her long experience means she can work with complex presentations such as obsessive-compulsive symptoms, panic attacks, bipolar mood concerns, and issues around identity and life purpose.
Therapeutic approaches for online care and practical skills
Lisa commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy in her online work. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-life experiments to reduce anxiety and depressive patterns. Acceptance and commitment therapy emphasizes noticing difficult feelings, clarifying personal values, and taking small committed steps toward a meaningful life.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy for emotion regulation and coping skills when overwhelming emotions or relationship patterns are in the way. These methods are presented as practical tools rather than abstract theory, and the therapist will collaborate with each person to choose which approaches fit best. Finding the right mix is part of the work and can change over time based on goals and how a person responds.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats like video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a session needs to fit into a busy day. Live chat or text messaging can support quick check-ins, brief coaching, or between-session follow-up. These options make it easier to keep momentum and fit care into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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