About Lucie
Lucie Knapp is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and struggles around eating and body image. She works with clients on relationship and intimacy issues, parenting concerns, career worries, and life transitions. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, so sessions focus on real steps people can try between meetings.
Lucie draws on 21 years in the field to create clear, manageable plans. She listens first, then asks questions that uncover deeper patterns people get stuck in.
Background and approach
From that starting point she helps build skills to manage emotions, improve communication, and shift unhelpful habits. Her background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with a Women’s Studies minor and a Master’s degree in Social Work from Rutgers University.
Lucie spent many years working on weight and behavior programs at Duke University Medical Center’s Diet and Fitness Center before moving into independent practice. That work shaped her focus on the relationship with food and how emotions drive behaviors. In sessions she blends client-centered conversation with cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness practices, and elements of acceptance and commitment work.
She also uses some dialectical behavior skills and psychodrama techniques when those fit the goals of the person in therapy. Lucie aims for a warm, interactive style. She helps people set realistic goals, notice what gets in the way, and try small experiments to build new patterns.
She is based in North Carolina and works with English-speaking clients, including international clients by online formats.
How Lucie’s approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take small actions that align with those values. It is useful for anxiety, life transitions, and persistent patterns that interfere with daily living. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and replace them with more workable options; it suits depression, anxiety, and eating-related behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a trusting, nonjudgmental conversation where the therapist follows the person’s lead and supports self-directed change.Choosing the right mix of these approaches is part of the work together. The therapist will collaborate with the client to decide which methods fit best based on goals, preferences, and what shows up in early sessions. That may mean trying an ACT technique one week and a CBT skill the next, then adjusting as needed.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer discussions. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in fits a break at work. Live chat and text messaging allow brief check-ins, homework support, and flexible communication between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work with a licensed professional from different locations.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina, New Jersey
- Languages
- English