About Misty
Misty Spencer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who focuses on helping people manage anxiety, ADHD, depression, and life transitions. She offers straightforward, goal-focused support for people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or worn down by daily stressors. Her style is practical and strengths-based, aimed at small changes that make life easier to live.
With seven years as an LCSW and 18 years working in social work roles, Misty brings steady experience to each session.
Background and approach
She has worked with adults and teenagers and has a history supporting people who have experienced trauma, anxiety, and depression. That background shapes how she plans treatment and offers tools clients can try between sessions. In sessions she uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy alongside elements of Mindfulness and Trauma-Focused work.
She breaks skills down into simple steps and practices that fit into everyday routines. Clients can expect to learn strategies for mood, sleep, and managing intense emotions. Misty also addresses issues tied to family of origin, attachment, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and communication problems.
She works on self-esteem, boundaries, codependency, grief, and career concerns with concrete techniques and clear goals. Her approach is collaborative and paced to match each person’s needs. People who choose her often want practical coping tools and direct feedback.
Misty helps people set realistic goals, practice new habits, and track progress over time.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Misty commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy in her online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with practical behavior changes, which can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and ADHD-related challenges. Solution-Focused Therapy emphasizes setting clear, small goals and building on existing strengths to create quick, manageable progress.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Misty will talk with each person about their goals and preferences and then try methods that match those needs. Together they track what helps most and adjust tools and homework to fit daily life.
Online therapy offers options that fit different schedules and routines. Video calls let people work through skills face-to-face, phone sessions are good for lower bandwidth or audio-only conversation, and live chat or text messaging suit brief check-ins, homework support, or times when typing feels easier. These formats make it simpler to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, school, or caregiving responsibilities.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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