About Lisa
Lisa Spore is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship or family concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, substance issues, parenting strain, career stress, and challenges like ADHD or compassion fatigue. Lisa practices from Missouri and offers sessions in English, including to international clients.
She uses a few different therapy methods and chooses what fits each person. Sessions focus on practical steps and understanding how past events affect today.
Background and approach
Lisa pays attention to both thoughts and bodily responses, and she works with clients to reduce distress and improve daily functioning. Her approach centers on the therapeutic relationship and on tailoring work to the individual. She listens without judgment and helps people set clear goals.
Therapy can include short-term problem solving or longer exploration depending on what a person needs. Lisa brings 12 years of experience as a counselor in mental health settings. She holds a Missouri Licensed Professional Counselor credential and continues to develop her skills in current methods.
That background informs how she balances skill-based work with attention to emotions and life context. Typical sessions involve learning strategies, practicing new responses, and reviewing progress. Some work focuses on changing unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Other times the focus is on processing traumatic memories or understanding patterns rooted in earlier relationships.
Approaches that guide online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current connections and emotional reactions. It helps people who notice patterns in relationships, difficulty trusting, or strong emotional reactivity. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors and is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. EMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, helps people process traumatic memories so those memories cause less distress and interference in daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, past experiences, and preferences, and together they decide which methods to try first. Sessions can shift over time as needs change and progress is reviewed collaboratively.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use audio and visual cues for deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit into a busy day or be easier when video isn't possible. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, real-time support, or when someone prefers writing. These options help people make therapy part of their routine and adapt care to their schedule and daily realities.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English