Lisa Spore
Compassionate, practical support for family concerns
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lisa
Lisa Spore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on family and related concerns. She practices in Missouri and brings practical, skills-based support for stress, anxiety, grief, depression, parenting questions, and relationship issues. Lisa keeps language simple and works with each person to set clear, achievable goals.
She has 12 years of experience in the mental health field and maintains training in several trauma-informed methods. Lisa draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based ideas, EMDR, and Narrative Therapy when useful.
Background and approach
She adapts techniques to what each person needs rather than using a single fixed approach. Sessions emphasize straightforward problem-solving and places to talk through painful reactions. Lisa pays attention to how life events and past experiences shape current struggles.
She helps identify patterns, practice new responses, and build small changes that fit daily life. Her approach blends talking therapies with attention to physical responses when appropriate. That can mean tracking thoughts and behaviors, exploring personal stories, or using trauma-focused tools to reduce distress.
Lisa aims for a calm, nonjudgmental atmosphere where people feel heard. Clients can expect collaborative planning at the start, with steps and homework tailored to their goals. The focus is on usable skills and making progress that carries outside sessions.
Lisa supports people through transitions, loss, and difficult family dynamics with clarity and steady guidance.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early bonds and current connections shape emotions and behavior. It helps people notice patterns in close relationships and try new ways of connecting. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and actions that keep problems going and teaches practical exercises to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress management. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that helps reduce the intensity of distressing memories using guided attention and processing techniques. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will listen to your concerns, goals, and preferences and suggest which methods to try first. Together you can adjust the plan if a technique does not feel like the right fit, keeping the process collaborative and flexible. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation from home, phone sessions offer another option when video is not practical, and live chat or text-based messaging provide short-form ways to check in or work through specific moments. These formats support continuity of care and let people use the approaches above in ways that match their schedules and comfort.Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
Also works with
- 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
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