About Lisa
Lisa Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 30 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. She provides straightforward support for relationship strain, addiction concerns, compassion fatigue, and major life changes. Her approach is calm and practical for someone seeking clear next steps.
Lisa keeps sessions focused and understandable. She uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy among other approaches.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to identify patterns, build coping skills, and set small, achievable goals. Her background includes long clinical experience in varied settings across Missouri. That experience informs a flexible way of working that can match a range of concerns from mood disorders to stress related to caregiving or work.
Lisa brings a steady presence and a practical emphasis on what helps day to day. People can expect a direct but empathetic style. Sessions often include skill teaching, guided reflection, and planning for real-world practice between meetings.
Lisa pays attention to how emotions show up in daily life and looks for manageable changes that add up. Beyond symptom relief, Lisa focuses on helping people find meaning and purpose after loss or big transitions. She also offers support around grief, hospice and end-of-life questions, and challenges tied to trauma or domestic violence.
Her Missouri LCSW credential is MO LCSW 000597.
How ACT, CBT, and DBT translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts without getting stuck in them and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, grief, and adjusting to major life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to shift unhelpful patterns. It is often used for depression, panic, OCD-type symptoms, and mood regulation.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, teaches emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills. Those skills can help with intense emotions, relationship stress, and coping during crisis moments.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, preferences, and daily life. Plans can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and visual connection, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text fits quick check-ins or brief coaching. These flexible formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Anger management
Also works with
- Addictions
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English