Lacey Schmitt

Lacey Schmitt is a Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) with six years of counseling experience. She has spent a great deal of time supporting people through mood struggles, trauma, and grief, and has worked in hospice settings as a social worker.

Her approach is warm and down-to-earth. She uses tools from different therapy styles and tailors them with each person. Lacey aims to create a space where people feel heard, accepted, and able to try new skills.

She emphasizes an honest, genuine relationship as the core of therapy. Lacey says that clear communication helps people understand their situation and move toward the changes they want. She focuses on practical steps as well as understanding the story behind the struggle.

Lacey helps people address stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and coping with life changes. She also works with sleep difficulties, self-esteem concerns, career issues, bipolar disorder, compassion fatigue, and ADHD. Additional focus areas include caregiver stress, chronic illness, aging and geriatric issues, cancer, and hospice and end-of-life counseling.

Sessions blend client-centered listening with concrete strategies from cognitive behavioral work and other methods. She brings experience from medical and hospice settings into conversations about illness, caregiving, and loss. Lacey invites people to set practical goals and explore what matters most to them.

To begin, she asks people to reflect on current needs and goals so the sessions can match their pace and priorities.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and acceptance. The therapist follows the person and helps them find their own solutions, which can be helpful for building trust and exploring values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and offers specific strategies to change patterns that cause distress. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, uses structured processing to address traumatic memories and related symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Lacey will talk with each person about their needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods that fit. That collaboration helps shape session pace, homework, and focus so the plan feels useful and realistic.

Because session formats are not specified in the biography, confirm current session options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, shorten check-ins when needed, or avoid travel time. It also allows a therapist to draw on techniques like CBT worksheets or EMDR protocols across appointments, and to shape work around caregiving schedules or medical needs.