About Lisa
Lisa Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She offers straightforward support for practical problems like relationship strain, work stress, addictive behaviors, and navigating big life changes. Lisa speaks English and works from Missouri.
Lisa uses plain, focused methods in sessions so people leave with usable steps. She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy to address thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
How Lisa works
Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm, increase coping skills, and help clients clarify values and next steps. Her background includes long experience with mood disorders, panic and obsessive concerns, and complex presentations like co-morbidity and bipolar disorder. Lisa also supports people facing grief, hospice and end-of-life challenges, and the emotional fallout from disasters or domestic violence.
She pays attention to guilt, shame, isolation, and issues tied to intellectual disability. In practical terms Lisa helps people break problems into small, manageable tasks. She uses motivational interviewing to strengthen commitment and solution-focused work to set short-term goals.
Therapy sessions often include skill practice, thought work, and planning for real-life situations. People can expect a calm, nonjudgmental presence and a clear plan each week. Lisa’s style balances warmth with direct guidance so clients can make steady progress toward better coping and a clearer sense of purpose.
Lisa lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Lisa works with
The areas below are the ones Lisa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Evidence-based approaches for online care
Lisa draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people accept difficult feelings while moving toward what matters to them. ACT often involves values work and simple experiments to test new behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to spot and change unhelpful thoughts and the behaviors that follow, which can reduce anxiety and improve mood. Dialectical Behavior Therapy adds practical skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication when feelings run high.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, day-to-day needs, and preferences. Together they choose which methods to try and adjust them as progress is made, so therapy stays practical and focused on what helps most.
Online sessions can fit into busy schedules and different life demands. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for deeper skill practice. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers no video. Live chat and text-based messaging help keep momentum between sessions and can be used for brief check-ins or homework support. These options offer flexibility in how and when therapy happens, so people can match care to their routines and needs.
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