About Yumi
Yumi Lemaster is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of experience. She combines a warm, down-to-earth approach with practical skills to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship concerns. Her style is collaborative and straightforward so people can talk through what matters most to them.
Yumi centers sessions on what the client wants to address first. She listens, offers clear coping techniques, and helps clients practice them between meetings.
Background and approach
Expect straightforward tools for emotional regulation, communication, and problem solving rather than long lectures. Her background includes work as an Army social worker supporting service members through PTSD, substance use, grief, adjustment, and relationship strain. That experience shaped how she helps people manage strong emotions and rebuild routines after big life changes.
Yumi draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. She uses client-centered methods to keep sessions focused on each person’s goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy tools are used to change unhelpful thoughts and teach coping skills.
Sessions are practical and skill-focused, with education and exercises to try between visits. She helps people address body image, eating and sleeping problems, caregiver stress, codependency, and family of origin issues. The aim is steady progress so clients can feel more capable and move toward the life they want.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships influence current patterns. It helps people notice connection styles, manage feelings around closeness, and change recurring relationship behaviors in practical ways. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's priorities. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathy, and helps the person find their own solutions to stress, grief, or life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It provides straightforward exercises to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build healthier habits for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating problems.Choosing the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with the client about goals and preferences, try techniques in session, and adjust the plan over time. That shared process helps find which tools feel most useful for coping, communication, and emotional regulation.
Online therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for longer sessions and skill teaching, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is needed, and chat or text can suit brief check-ins, skill prompts, or days when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while continuing steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Texas, Virginia
- Languages
- English