About Lisa
Lisa Spore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 12 years of experience. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship and parenting concerns, and struggles like addiction or low self-esteem. Lisa also supports people dealing with grief, career stress, ADHD-related challenges, and issues around identity and intimacy.
Her approach is practical and body-aware. She draws on Somatic methods and other approaches to help people notice how stress and trauma show up in the body as well as the mind.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what feels most helpful for each person, with simple tools to manage big feelings and day-to-day challenges. In the room she combines client-centered listening with structured techniques when useful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps with unhelpful thoughts and behavior patterns.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on closeness and trust. EMDR and somatic work may be used for trauma processing when appropriate. Lisa aims for clear, steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She works with people to uncover how past events can still affect daily life, and to build skills for handling triggers and strong emotions. Therapy includes practical steps, reflective conversation, and body-awareness practices as needed. Sessions are tailored to each person’s pace and goals.
Lisa emphasizes collaboration, so clients help choose which tools and approaches to use. The focus is on improving coping, relationships, and overall emotional balance.
How somatic and talk-based approaches work online
Somatic work helps people notice how tension, sensations, and stress show up in the body. Online somatic sessions may include guided breathing, gentle body awareness, and grounding practices to reduce overwhelm and build regulation skills. These techniques can be helpful for trauma, anxiety, chronic stress, and physical symptoms that relate to emotional states.Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of closeness and trust. In teletherapy this approach looks at how current relationships echo past ones, and it helps clients try new ways of relating and setting boundaries. Client-Centered Therapy centers on listening and acceptance, giving people space to tell their story while the therapist follows their lead and offers reflection and support.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to decide which methods best match their needs, goals, and comfort level. That decision can change as progress is made, and treatment may combine somatic work, attachment ideas, and talk-based tools.
Online formats offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. This range lets people choose shorter check-ins or longer sessions, and makes it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules or different time zones. Many clients find that mixing formats helps maintain momentum and supports steady progress.
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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