Lisa Smith, LCSW

Lisa Smith is a licensed clinical social worker with 30 years of experience helping people through major life shifts and emotional strain. She focuses on issues such as depression, anxiety, grief, midlife crisis, and coping with life changes. Her tone is calm and straightforward, and she aims to help people find practical ways forward.

She uses clear, evidence-based methods to help clients understand their feelings and change harmful patterns. Sessions center on setting small, achievable goals and developing skills for managing stress, panic, and overwhelming mood swings. She also helps people facing complicated grief, trauma, or the fatigue that comes from caregiving and compassion-heavy work.

Her style is warm and non-judgmental. She listens first and then suggests approaches that fit each person’s needs. Clients can expect focused conversations, skill practice, and planning between sessions when helpful.

Over three decades she has supported people dealing with relationship strain, addictions, self-esteem struggles, and questions about life purpose. She also has experience with issues like domestic violence, intellectual disability, and end-of-life concerns. Her work pays attention to how multiple problems can interact and affect daily life.

Lisa practices in Missouri and meets with people in English. To begin, people use the site’s Start Therapy button to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule according to her availability. Costs vary with location and use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

Approaches that guide online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take steps toward those values even when strong emotions are present. It often helps with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on meaningful action rather than just symptom elimination.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It teaches practical tools to shift unhelpful thinking and reduce worry, panic, and low mood through structured exercises and behavior changes.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. It can be useful for intense mood swings, overwhelming emotions, and repeated patterns that cause conflict or crisis.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences, and will adapt techniques over time as progress is made.

Session logistics should be confirmed before booking since the profile does not list specific formats. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and make it possible to keep therapy going during major life transitions. Talk with the therapist during the initial scheduling steps to learn which session arrangements will work best for you.