About Essence
Essence Lee is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Illinois with 10 years of experience in mental health care. She helps people navigate stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and the emotional fallout from major life changes. She encourages clients to recognize their own strengths and to take steady steps toward feeling better.
Her approach is straightforward and practical. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that keep them stuck.
How Essence works
She also draws on Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple awareness and grounding skills people can use day to day. Sessions focus on clear goals and small, manageable steps. She works with clients to build coping skills for grief, bipolar mood challenges, compassion fatigue, and ongoing mood concerns.
Additional areas of focus include commitment issues, communication problems, feelings of emptiness, and grappling with guilt or shame. Essence pays attention to how prejudice and discrimination affect mental health and supports women dealing with gender-related stress. She also helps people who want to strengthen self-love, repair relationships, or work through forgiveness and family problems.
Her style is collaborative and practical. She invites clients to try techniques between sessions and adjusts plans based on what helps. The aim is steady progress you can see in daily life.
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Training and background
| Register | LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Illinois |
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Evidence-based approaches delivered online
Essence uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood, and problems that repeat because of certain thinking patterns. She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing techniques that reduce reactivity and help with stress and overwhelming feelings.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods in session, and adjust techniques to match what feels helpful. This collaborative process makes it easier to find tools that fit the person's life and needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or you need a shorter check-in. Live chat and text messaging can support frequent updates, brief problem-solving, and ongoing encouragement between longer sessions.
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