Lisa Daly, LCSW, LSCSW

Therapeutic approaches for online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers options, and helps people set goals that matter to them. This approach is useful for many concerns, from stress to relationship and identity questions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical skills to reduce worry, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, OCD, and coping with life changes.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people identify and express core emotions in relationships and close connections. It can be especially helpful when intimacy, communication, or attachment patterns are causing pain.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit those needs. That process is collaborative, and adjustments are made when something isn’t helping.

Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging to match different rhythms of life. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone calls use less bandwidth, live chat can work for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and maintain momentum between visits.