Yumi Lemaster, LCSW

Yumi Lemaster is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 13 years of experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, depression, addictions, and related struggles such as grief and intimacy issues. Yumi uses straightforward, skills-based work and listens to what people say they need from therapy.

She centers sessions on what the client wants to address first. Yumi uses practical tools and teaches coping skills that can be practiced between sessions. Expect clear explanations, short exercises, and suggestions you can try in everyday life.

Her background includes Army social work, where she worked with service members on PTSD, depression, anxiety, substance use, grief, domestic violence intervention, parenting skills, and life transitions. That experience shaped the way she blends problem-solving with support. It also informs how she talks about loss, adjustment, and stress in relationships.

Therapeutic methods she draws on include attachment-based ideas, client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and existential approaches. In practice this translates to attention on how relationships affect feelings, identifying unhelpful thoughts, learning emotion regulation skills, and discussing meaning and values.

People who struggle with people-pleasing, trouble saying no, feeling stuck after a breakup, or living around someone else’s moods often find sessions focus on boundary-setting, mood management, and clearer communication. Yumi encourages steady practice and feedback so skills become part of daily life.

How her approaches translate to online work