- CBT and mindfulness
- Emotion regulation skills
- Goal focused work
About Lissa
Lissa Elliott St.Clair is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Pennsylvania with nine years of experience. She works with people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, mood struggles, grief, and life changes including parenting and career challenges.
She focuses on practical conversations that help people notice and change the thoughts and behaviors that keep them stuck. Sessions often include plain-language tools from cognitive behavioral approaches to reduce panic, manage mood swings, and ease persistent anxious thinking. Mindfulness strategies and skills from dialectical approaches can be used to steady intense emotions.
Lissa also supports people working through trauma, compassion fatigue, and post-traumatic stress. She helps clients break patterns such as codependency, communication problems, and isolation. The work may cover relationship shifts like separation or divorce and the feelings that follow, such as guilt, shame, or emptiness.
Her style centers on listening and practical skill-building. Conversations tend to be goal-focused and solution-minded, with attention to how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. Clients who prefer clear tools and short-term strategies often find this useful.
Sessions are conducted in English and follow Pennsylvania licensing standards for an LPC. People interested in starting complete a short questionnaire and schedule a first session through the online matching process. Lissa does not take international clients.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting back what feels important to you. It helps people feel heard and figure out their own next steps by prioritizing the client's perspective. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which can reduce panic attacks and lessen persistent worry. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers skills for emotion regulation and distress tolerance, useful when feelings feel intense or overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the early work. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods fit best based on current problems, personal goals, and how the client prefers to work. That decision is collaborative and can adapt over time as needs change.
Confirm the specific online session options before booking since formats are not listed in the profile. Online sessions can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy day, reduce travel time, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove the need to be on camera if that helps someone engage. These practical benefits can help someone keep consistent appointments and apply skills between sessions.
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Experience
9+ years
Listed in
Pennsylvania
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she work with?
She works with stress, anxiety, self-esteem, depression, grief, trauma and related mood issues including bipolar and panic disorder.
What is her general therapeutic style?
Her approach is practical and client-centered, using clear tools from CBT, DBT skills, mindfulness, and solution-focused work to address daily problems.
How much experience does she have?
She has nine years of experience as a counselor working with mood, anxiety, and life transition concerns.
What credentials and location apply?
She is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) in Pennsylvania and practices under that credential.
Are sessions offered in other languages or to international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She does not accept international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking by checking the online matching process, as formats are not specified in the profile.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to meet with her?
Use the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule your first session.