Lacey Schmitt, LISW

Lacey Schmitt is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with six years of experience in counseling. She has worked with adults, teens, and older adults, and has significant experience in hospice settings. Lacey focuses on mood concerns, trauma, grief, and the emotional effects of aging and serious illness.

Her style is warm and down-to-earth. She draws on several therapy approaches and mixes tools to fit each person's needs. Sessions are meant to be a space to be heard, accepted, and understood while learning practical skills.

Lacey emphasizes building a clear and honest therapeutic relationship. She aims to be genuine and straightforward while helping people identify what matters to them. Together the work looks at current struggles and small steps toward change.

She commonly supports people managing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, bipolar challenges, grief, and compassion fatigue. She also assists with issues like chronic pain, caregiver stress, body image concerns, isolation, and end-of-life matters.

Lacey uses client-centered methods alongside cognitive behavioral techniques, existential questions, EMDR, and motivational interviewing. Treatment is shaped by the goals a person brings and practical strategies that fit their life.

Her approach blends listening, skill-building, and honest conversation so people can find clearer direction. To begin, clients complete an intake path and then schedule sessions based on available times.

How Lacey’s approaches translate to online work

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, acceptance, and helping people lead the conversation about what matters most. It helps when someone needs a nonjudgmental space to sort through feelings and choices.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and actions shape mood. It’s practical and skill-based, useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, is used to address distress from traumatic memories by working through them in a paced way that reduces their intensity over time.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and suggest methods that match those needs. Together they may try different tools and adjust the plan as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the session formats before booking. Practical benefits often include easier fitting of sessions into busy days, shorter check-ins when needed, and options that do not require travel. Online work can make it simpler to maintain continuity during health challenges or caregiving responsibilities, while letting clients pick times that suit their routines.