About Lydia
Lydia Frazier is a licensed independent social worker with 25 years of experience helping people cope with anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship struggles. She writes plainly and listens carefully to what matters to each person. Lydia focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and clearer about next moves.
Her approach is flexible and built around the client's needs. She blends Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and client-centered work.
How Lydia works
Lydia pays attention to daily routines like sleep, nutrition, and movement alongside emotional patterns. This helps connect what happens in a day to how someone feels over time. She often explores how early relationships and attachment shape current behavior and emotions.
Sessions include skill-building for stress, tools for handling strong feelings, and ways to rebuild trust in yourself and others. Therapy is collaborative - Lydia helps set goals and checks progress along the way. People come with many concerns such as parenting strain, grief, addiction, identity questions, or career stress.
Lydia also supports those dealing with abandonment, adoption or foster care history, body image, codependency, dissociation, and coping after separation or divorce. Her work aims to help people notice patterns and make manageable changes. Lydia practices in Iowa and holds an IA LISW license.
She offers sessions that fit different schedules and preferences, focusing on what will make daily life feel more manageable and purposeful.
Lydia lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
What Lydia works with
The areas below are the ones Lydia selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family 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
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LISW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Iowa |
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Online support options
How Lydia’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and then move toward a life that aligns with their values. It is useful for anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing patterns of behavior with practical exercises. It often helps with depression, anxiety, and managing everyday stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current interactions and emotional safety, which can be helpful for intimacy struggles and trust issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. Lydia works collaboratively to match techniques to a person's goals and circumstances. She listens to what matters most, tries different strategies when needed, and checks in regularly to see what is working and what should change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for in-depth discussions and exercises, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and chat or messaging can work well for shorter check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options help fit sessions into busy days, reduce travel time, and allow people to keep therapy consistent when life gets hectic.
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