About Lisa
Lisa Spore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Missouri. She brings 12 years of experience in the mental health field and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, relationship concerns, and life transitions. She works in a straightforward, supportive way and adapts to each person’s needs.
In sessions she takes time to understand what is most troubling right now. Lisa blends practical tools with space to tell your story.
How Lisa works
She uses methods like cognitive behavioral techniques, attachment-based thinking, narrative work, and EMDR when appropriate. Her approach is collaborative. Lisa aims to make goals clear and achievable.
She helps people notice patterns from past experiences that keep causing pain, then practices new ways of responding. She also addresses issues such as addiction, grief, parenting strain, self-esteem, and career stress. Additional focuses include chronic illness, codependency, communication problems, and compulsive or impulsive behaviors.
Lisa offers coaching-style support when people want help setting and reaching concrete goals. Sessions can include skills practice, guided processing of upsetting memories, and reshaping unhelpful thoughts. The tone is direct but compassionate.
Lisa tries to keep things practical so people leave sessions with steps they can use right away.
Lisa lists 8 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.
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 12 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and healing
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds affect current relationships and emotional responses. It helps people who struggle with trust, closeness, or recurring relationship patterns notice and change those dynamics. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers concrete tools to reduce anxiety, improve mood, and change unhelpful behaviors. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is a structured way to process traumatic memories so they cause less distress during daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, goals, and preferences. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as needed so it fits the person’s pace and needs.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face connection for deeper processing, while phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and text are helpful for quick check-ins, ongoing coaching, or shorter exchanges between full sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while still working with licensed professionals and established therapeutic methods.
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