About Yumi
Yumi Lemaster is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 13 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship and intimacy-related struggles. People also turn to her for help with trauma and abuse, anger, addictions, grief, and family-related concerns.
Yumi centers sessions on a respectful, person-led approach. She begins where the client feels ready and follows their priorities. She emphasizes clear feedback and a steady, collaborative relationship to guide progress.
Background and approach
Her background includes service as an Army social worker, where she supported service members through grief, adjustment challenges, substance issues, and mood conditions. That experience shaped how she talks about coping skills and life transitions. In sessions she uses a mix of practical tools.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and Attachment-Based approaches inform the way she teaches coping strategies, emotion regulation, and relationship understanding. She also uses existential ideas to help people reflect on meaning and choices. Clients can expect psychoeducation, skills practice, and straightforward discussion about patterns that get in the way.
Yumi emphasizes hands-on tools and regular practice between sessions. Her goal is to help people build strength, reduce distress, and move toward a life that feels more alive and manageable.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Yumi draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and teach practical skills for mood and anxiety. CBT focuses on changing thoughts and behaviors through simple exercises and homework that can be done between sessions.She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. DBT offers concrete coping strategies that help when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships become difficult.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Yumi will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then choose and adapt techniques to fit their needs. She encourages regular feedback so sessions stay useful and focused on what matters most to the client.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people work face-to-face when they prefer it, while phone calls can be a lower-bandwidth option. Live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when someone needs more frequent touchpoints. These options help people fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while keeping the focus on learning skills and making steady progress.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Hawaii, Texas, Virginia
- Languages
- English
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