About Lucinda
Lucinda Foster is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, anger, low self-esteem, depression, and addictions. She also supports people working through grief, career questions, ADHD, trichotillomania, life purpose, women's issues, and concerns common to young adults.
She trained in counseling at Wichita State University in Kansas, earning a Bachelor of Science and a master’s degree in counseling. Over about two decades she has worked in many settings, including day programs, academic advising, outreach counseling, and special education support.
Background and approach
Those roles brought experience with communication, behavior concerns, and practical problem solving. In sessions she blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral techniques and solution-focused methods. That means she listens first, then helps people notice unhelpful thinking patterns and try simpler, goal-oriented strategies.
Sessions tend to be practical and focused on what can change next. Her background includes work with addiction issues, gambling concerns, and substance use, as well as experience addressing parenting stress and anxiety. She aims to offer a steady, nonjudgmental ear and concrete tools to manage daily challenges and emotional ups and downs.
Lucinda emphasizes collaboration. She helps people set clear goals, practice new skills between sessions, and adjust the plan as needed. The overall focus is on making life more manageable and moving past roadblocks one step at a time.
How these approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding. The therapist offers empathy and reflects what a person says so they can make sense of their feelings and decide on next steps. This approach is helpful for people who need a calm space to be heard.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors connect. Online CBT sessions often include short exercises, thought records, and practical tasks to try between sessions to reduce anxiety or manage moods. This approach is useful for stress, anxiety, depression, and behavior changes.
Solution-Focused Therapy centers on the next steps and small, achievable goals. Sessions move quickly to what can be done differently now, which can help with problem solving and building momentum for change.
Choosing the right methods is a shared process. The therapist will listen to a person's needs, goals, and preferences, then suggest a mix of approaches to try. Together they check progress and change the plan if something is not helpful.
Online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video allows face-to-face conversation, phone can work when bandwidth is limited, and messaging suits quick check-ins or keeping a running dialogue between sessions. These options offer flexibility for scheduling and for matching a format to the work someone wants to do.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Career difficulties
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Life purpose
- Self esteem
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Arizona
- Languages
- English