About Lisa
Lisa Spore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri. She brings 12 years of experience helping people who are struggling with anxiety, stress, depression, trauma, relationship worries, and life transitions. Lisa aims to make therapy straightforward and practical for people juggling busy lives.
Her sessions focus on what is happening now and what can change. She listens closely and tailors the work to each person instead of following a single fixed method.
Background and approach
Conversations tend to be goal-oriented with time for exploring past events that still affect daily life. Lisa uses approaches such as attachment-focused work, client-centered methods, cognitive behavioral strategies, EMDR, and narrative techniques. These are combined depending on the issue and the person.
She pays attention to how the body and emotions interact when stress or trauma shows up. People often come to her for help with anxiety, coping after loss or separation, grief, addictions, parenting strain, workplace stress, and identity concerns. Lisa also supports those dealing with chronic illness, impulsivity, codependency, and compassion fatigue.
The aim is to reduce immediate distress and build clearer coping habits over time. Sessions can include skills practice, talking through painful memories, and identifying unhelpful thought patterns. Lisa works collaboratively to set goals and match methods to each person’s needs.
She offers English-language services and sees clients in Missouri as well as international clients online.
Approaches that fit online therapy
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. It helps people who feel stuck in repeating relationship cycles or who struggle with trust and closeness. Client-centered therapy centers the person's experience and goals, offering a respectful space where the therapist follows the client's lead to build insight and confidence. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) targets unhelpful thoughts and behaviors with practical exercises and homework, which can quickly reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That might mean combining conversational, insight-focused work with CBT techniques or brief trauma-focused steps when appropriate.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging suits short updates, ongoing coaching, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work breaks, caregiving schedules, or other busy routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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