Lydia Schatzel
Compassionate, practical therapy for life's challenges
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Lydia
Lydia Schatzel is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Illinois with 12 years of experience. She builds a respectful, cooperative relationship early on so people feel able to talk about hard things. Lydia focuses on practical skills and clear steps during sessions.
She mixes direct problem-solving with empathy to help people feel more capable over time. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ADHD, addictions, grief, and concerns about intimacy and self-esteem.
Background and approach
She also addresses family-related issues and a broad range of other challenges like body image, sleep problems, and coping with life changes. Sessions aim to identify manageable goals and the next small steps toward them. In session she draws on client-centered and cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and psychodynamic ideas.
That means conversations include listening closely, noticing patterns in thoughts and behaviors, practicing present-moment awareness, and exploring what motivates change. Lydia tailors her approach to each person rather than using one fixed method. Her background includes roles as a crisis worker and care coordinator, as well as ongoing therapy practice.
She has worked with people facing trauma, substance use, relationship strain, abuse, neglect, and exploitation. Those experiences inform her practical planning and crisis-aware perspective. Lydia aims to offer straightforward tools and coping strategies.
She helps clients break down big problems into steps they can try between sessions. The goal is to emerge from hard periods feeling more steady and ready for what comes next.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Client-centered therapy focuses on a warm, respectful relationship and follows the person’s own goals. It helps when someone needs a supportive space to sort priorities and figure out what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it can be useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and similar concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lydia will listen to your goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit your situation. That collaborative process can mean trying different techniques and adjusting the plan as needs change.
Online therapy makes these approaches accessible through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Those options let people fit sessions around work, school, or family time and use formats that feel most comfortable. The variety of communication styles also makes it easier to continue care during busy or transitional periods.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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