About Tony
Tony Lee is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and depression. He focuses on practical supports for relationship and intimacy concerns, self-esteem, and coping with life changes. He works with LGBTQ clients and people facing career strain or compassion fatigue.
Tony uses straightforward, people-focused methods in sessions. He listens first and asks questions to understand daily routines and immediate worries. From there he offers simple tools to reduce worry, improve communication, and handle anger or shame.
Background and approach
He blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness. That means sessions balance listening with steps to change unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. Mindfulness practices are offered to help calm the body and focus attention when anxiety or stress rises.
Tony also draws on motivational interviewing and narrative therapy to help clients clarify values and rewrite painful stories about themselves. He commonly supports people dealing with caregiving stress, chronic illness, end-of-life concerns, immigration-related distress, and work-related burnout. Tony holds a Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker credential, LICSW.
He practices in the District of Columbia and conducts sessions in English. His style aims to be affirming and culturally aware while staying practical and goal-oriented.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Tony blends client-centered therapy with cognitive behavioral therapy to give people both empathetic listening and concrete steps. Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person’s values and experiences so they feel heard. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify and shift unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression.He also uses mindfulness techniques to help people notice the body and breath when stress rises. Mindfulness can be useful for calming anxiety and staying present during difficult emotions. Together these approaches are chosen to match what each person needs rather than following a single method.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with clients to set goals, try different strategies, and adjust methods based on what helps most. Clients can expect check-ins about progress and practical homework to test new skills between sessions.
Online therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions let the therapist and client work face to face, phone calls can fit a quick check-in or lower bandwidth need, live chat is useful for shorter conversations, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins and brief coaching. These options aim to make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Massachusetts, California, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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