About Lissa
Lissa Elliott St.Clair is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She offers a calm, empathetic presence and aims to help each person feel heard and more in control. Many seek her help for mood swings, burnout, grief, relationship struggles, and parenting strain.
She blends client-centered work with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Sessions move between listening, exploring patterns of thought and behavior, and practicing new skills.
How Lissa works
Mindfulness and solution-focused techniques are also used to help people notice what matters and set concrete steps forward. Lissa draws on nine years of experience working with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, bipolar-related challenges, panic attacks, and post-traumatic stress. She also supports people facing codependency, communication problems, divorce and separation, and career transitions.
Her approach addresses emotional, mental, and spiritual needs in a straightforward way. Sessions aim to reduce overwhelm and build practical coping skills. Lissa helps people replace stuck thinking with choices they can act on.
She emphasizes small, achievable changes that add up over time. Therapy is collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness. Lissa guides goal-setting and skill practice, and she helps people track progress between sessions.
She practices in Pennsylvania and works in English.
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What Lissa works with
The areas below are the ones Lissa selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Pennsylvania |
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Online support options
How these approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding each person's perspective and creating a supportive space to talk things through. It helps people clarify their values and feel listened to while they decide on next steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions. Online sessions can include short exercises to notice unhelpful thinking and practical homework to try new behaviors between appointments.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) brings skills for managing strong emotions and improving relationships. It teaches breathing and grounding techniques, emotion regulation, and communication skills that translate well to remote practice.
Finding the best fit is a collaboration. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and the kinds of exercises that feel workable. Together they will adapt approaches and try different tools until something feels helpful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversations and skills practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat or text can be a shorter check-in or fit into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, or travel.
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