About Lena
Lena Longmire Lyons is a licensed mental health counselor practicing in Florida with 15 years of clinical experience. She centers care on each person’s strengths and helps them move toward clearer goals. Lena aims to make the first step feel manageable and supportive for people facing difficult moments.
She often works with stress, anxiety, bipolar disorder, depression, and addiction. She also helps people dealing with trauma, grief, parenting strain, career questions, and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Lena pays attention to how life changes and relationship stress affect everyday functioning. Her approach respects the client as the expert on their life. She uses a mix of conversational listening and practical tools to build coping skills.
Sessions focus on small, usable steps rather than long lectures or jargon. Lena draws from client-centered methods and evidence-informed techniques like cognitive behavioral strategies and emotion-focused work. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing also shape her sessions when useful.
She adapts methods to match what each person needs on a given day. People meet with Lena through video, phone, chat, or messaging formats. Those options let sessions fit into busy schedules and provide multiple ways to check in between meetings.
To start, she asks for a short intake so together they can pick a comfortable path forward.
How Lena’s Approaches Work Online
Client-centered therapy begins by listening to what matters most to the person. The therapist follows the client’s lead, helps clarify priorities, and supports self-directed change. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms and build clearer routines; it often includes practical exercises to try between sessions. Emotionally-focused work helps people name and process strong feelings so they can repair how they relate to others and themselves.Choosing the best approach is a joint process. The therapist will ask about current struggles, goals, and what feels most comfortable. Together they experiment and adjust strategies until a good fit emerges, with small steps tested in everyday life.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make therapy easier to use. Video works well for a typical therapy session and reading facial cues. Phone calls use less bandwidth and can be a good check-in during a busy day. Live chat or text messaging fit quick check-ins, shorter reflections, or times when writing feels easier than speaking. These options help people keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English