About Yumi
Yumi Lemaster is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She uses simple, practical tools so people can feel steadier day to day. Yumi aims to create a respectful, honest relationship where clients guide the work and give feedback along the way.
She begins by listening to what matters most to each person. Then she offers concrete skills and short exercises to try between sessions.
Background and approach
Sessions often include education about reactions, steps to cope with intense feelings, and practice of new habits. Yumi draws on work she did as an Army social worker. That background involved supporting people through grief, adjustment challenges, depression, substance concerns, and trauma-related symptoms.
Those years shaped her direct, hands-on style and her focus on usable strategies. Her approach mixes attachment-based ideas, client-centered conversation, and behavior-focused tools like cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. She teaches emotion regulation, communication skills, and ways to reduce anxious thoughts or impulsive reactions.
People who want clear steps, steady support, and chances to practice new skills may find this approach helpful. Yumi works with a wide range of concerns including relationships, self-esteem, eating and sleeping problems, caregiver stress, and coping with life changes. She aims to help people build strength and find more of what makes life feel meaningful.
Approach-focused care through online sessions
Yumi blends attachment-based ideas with cognitive behavioral therapy to help people understand patterns and change unhelpful thoughts. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current reactions and helps people build safer ways of relating. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing small behavioral experiments to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Yumi collaborates with each person to choose which methods to try based on their goals, symptoms, and daily life. She adapts tools over time and asks for feedback so sessions stay useful and relevant.
Online therapy offers several practical options: video calls for face-to-face conversations, phone sessions when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging for short check-ins or skill practice. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, use lower-bandwidth options when needed, or have brief support between longer sessions. Licensed professionals can tailor session type to the work being done and to what helps the person keep practicing new skills.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Texas, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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