About Yumi
Yumi Lemaster uses a blend of evidence-based approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, trauma and related concerns. She is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience and brings a practical, down-to-earth style to sessions. Yumi focuses on where each person wants to begin and follows their pace as they work toward clearer goals.
She emphasizes attachment-based and client-centered ways of working, which means she pays attention to how relationships and trust shape behavior.
How Yumi works
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are used to teach concrete skills for mood, anxiety, and impulse concerns. Yumi also draws on existential ideas to help people clarify values and meaning when life feels unsettled. Her background includes work as an Army social worker, where she supported service members through traumatic stress, loss, adjustment, and substance concerns.
That experience shaped her commitment to practical coping skills, psychoeducation, and steady support during difficult transitions. She offers techniques people can practice between sessions to build change over time. Yumi often addresses issues such as grief, anger, addictions, body-image and eating concerns, sleep problems, self-esteem, and career stress.
Additional focuses include attachment wounds, abandonment, adoption and foster care topics, caregiver strain, codependency, communication and control issues, and family of origin matters. Sessions are offered in English and she works with clients across regions, including internationally.
Yumi prefers a collaborative approach: clients guide the work and she provides tools, feedback, and steady encouragement to help them move toward the life they want.
Yumi lists 10 ways of working on the entry:
What Yumi works with
The areas below are the ones Yumi 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment 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
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 13 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Approach-driven care delivered online
Yumi often uses Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early and current relationships shape reactions and security in close connections. This approach helps when trust, abandonment, or attachment injuries affect how someone feels and behaves. Client-Centered Therapy is central to her work and means sessions follow the client's lead while the therapist offers empathy and nonjudgmental support. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to break down thoughts and behaviors into manageable parts and teach practical strategies for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating issues.Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Yumi works with each person to identify goals and preferences, then adapts methods to fit what feels most useful. This is a collaborative effort where feedback shapes the plan and techniques change as needs evolve.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and screen-sharing for worksheets, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat support quicker check-ins or extra practice between appointments. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules and to keep momentum during life transitions.
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