About Essence
Essence Lee is a licensed clinician practicing in Illinois. She holds an LCPC and brings ten years of experience helping people with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, depression, and coping with life changes. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps you can use between sessions.
Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She treats clients as experts on their own stories and helps them use their strengths to move forward.
Background and approach
Sessions typically include short-term tools to manage symptoms and clearer ways to face ongoing challenges. Essence often uses strategies drawn from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness to help people notice unhelpful thoughts. She pairs that with simple exercises to reduce stress and improve daily routines.
The goal is to build skills that fit a person’s day-to-day life. She is also familiar with mood disorders such as bipolar condition and helping people handle grief and compassion fatigue. She offers support around relationship concerns like commitment issues and communication problems, and works with issues tied to self-worth, guilt, and forgiveness.
Her style is calm and practical. She helps people break problems into small, manageable steps. People who want clear tools, steady guidance, and a respectful listening ear tend to do well with her.
How cognitive and mindful approaches work online
Essence uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. That method focuses on concrete steps - identifying a thought, testing it, and practicing new responses - which can be practiced between sessions to reduce anxiety or low mood.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to teach simple attention and breathing exercises. These practices help reduce reactivity and increase calm in stressful moments, which supports coping with life changes, grief, and compassion fatigue.
Choosing the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, daily life, and preferences, then try techniques that fit those needs. If something does not help, adjustments are made together so the work stays useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging for practical flexibility. Video allows face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit a break at work. Live chat or text messaging works for brief check-ins, quick skill practice, or when typing feels easier. These options help people fit therapy into real life without long commutes.
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- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English