About Lydia
Lydia Schatzel is a licensed clinical social worker with twelve years of experience helping people navigate hard moments. She emphasizes building a respectful, positive rapport so clients feel heard and ready to do the work. Lydia brings a steady, compassionate presence to sessions and focuses on practical skills people can use right away.
She adapts conversations and plans to each person's needs rather than using one fixed method. Lydia uses techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing along with mindfulness and a client-centered outlook.
Background and approach
That means sessions often blend problem-solving, goal-setting, and noticing what is happening in the moment. Common concerns she helps with include stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar mood concerns, trauma and abuse, addiction, and ADHD. She also addresses grief, intimacy and relationship concerns, eating and sleep challenges, anger, and low self-esteem.
Lydia has worked with issues related to attachment, adoption and foster care, and blended family dynamics as well. Before becoming a therapist she worked as a crisis worker and care coordinator, roles that shaped her practical approach to safety and coping. Lydia explains tools clearly and practices them in session so clients can try them between meetings.
She aims to help people feel more capable handling daily demands and transitions. Based in Illinois, Lydia supports clients using a collaborative style. She focuses on what will make life more manageable now and on building skills for the future.
How Lydia’s methods translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and tailoring conversations to what matters most to the person. In online sessions Lydia will follow the client's lead, ask about goals, and adjust pacing and topics to fit each session. Cognitive behavioral therapy involves identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors; online work often uses worksheets, real-time practice, and brief between-session exercises to make change happen.Finding the best approach is part of the process. Lydia works collaboratively to pick techniques that match a client's needs and preferences, and she revisits the plan as goals evolve. That means clients help shape what methods are used and when to try something different.
Online formats offer practical flexibility. Video calls let the therapist and client use visual cues and work through exercises together, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can support people who prefer writing, need frequent brief check-ins, or want to process thoughts between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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