About Lyssa
Lyssa Solomon Simpson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Georgia with ten years of experience. She focuses on practical help for stress, anxiety, depression, anger, self-esteem, and LGBT concerns. Her style is straightforward and respectful.
She aims to make beginning therapy feel manageable for someone worried about taking the first step. She works from the idea that each person knows their own story best. Sessions center on the client’s goals and strengths, and the counselor offers guidance and tools to make change feel possible.
Background and approach
Conversations are collaborative and paced to match what a person needs right now. Lyssa uses techniques drawn from client-centered practice and cognitive behavioral approaches to help people notice patterns and try different strategies. She also brings motivational interviewing and solution-focused methods to sessions when clients want focused steps and short-term goals.
These methods are used together to tailor support for mood concerns, trauma-related stress, social anxiety, and self-harm thoughts when they come up. Her background includes work with issues tied to abandonment, adoption and foster care, family conflict, and impulsivity. She helps people address phobias, post-traumatic stress, disruptive mood challenges, and young adult transitions.
Conversations often include skill-building for communication and emotion regulation. Lyssa aims to empower people to make steady progress. She encourages small, realistic steps and celebrates practical wins.
For someone looking for a calm, goal-focused approach, she offers steady professional support.
Therapeutic approaches and online support
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and strengths. The therapist offers active listening and reflective feedback so clients can clarify what matters and make choices that fit their life. This approach helps when someone needs a listening space to sort feelings and priorities.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at patterns of thinking and behavior that keep problems going. Sessions include practical exercises to test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, social anxiety, and many mood-related concerns.
Lyssa aims to find the right mix of methods with each client. She will work together with clients to pick approaches that match their needs, goals, and preferences. That collaborative process helps set clear short-term aims and adjust methods over time.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical options. Video calls are good for in-depth sessions where visual cues matter. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, quicker notes, and regular contact between full sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while using the approaches described above.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English