About Lissa
Lissa Elliott St.Clair is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who offers a calm, compassionate approach for people facing stress and anxiety. She greets new clients with a steady presence and a focus on practical steps to feel better. Sessions are straightforward and centered on what matters to the individual.
Lissa speaks in plain terms and helps people make manageable changes. She uses client-centered methods to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify thought patterns that feed worry and low mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy and mindfulness practices add skills for handling intense emotions and staying present. Her work addresses a wide range of concerns including anxiety, panic, mood disorders, trauma and abuse, grief, and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people facing life changes such as divorce, career shifts, midlife questions, and parenting strain. Issues like codependency, guilt, shame, isolation, and low self-esteem are included in her focus areas. With nine years of experience, Lissa blends skill teaching with listening.
Therapy sessions may include learning coping skills, practicing mindfulness, and setting small, achievable goals. She tends to keep language simple and concrete so people can use what they learn right away. Lissa practices in Pennsylvania and conducts sessions in English.
She offers remote formats that fit different schedules and preferences. The aim is steady progress and clearer choices, not quick fixes.
How therapeutic approaches translate online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to the person in front of the therapist. Online sessions give time to talk about what feels most important and to shape goals together. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. In an online session this often means working through specific exercises, tracking patterns, and assigning short practice tasks between meetings. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) teaches concrete skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, which can be practiced during video or messaging sessions and reviewed with the therapist.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate to decide which methods fit a person’s needs and preferences. That might mean combining listening-focused client-centered sessions with skill-building CBT or DBT work, and adjusting plans as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people talk face to face when a longer conversation is needed. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill coaching, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to maintain steady work on anxiety, mood, and life changes without long commutes or rigid schedules.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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