- Compassionate collaborator
- Focus on daily coping
- Career and mood support
About Lella
Lella Still is a Kentucky licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) with 15 years of experience helping people through hard seasons. She focuses on practical support for depression, anxiety, relationship concerns, and workplace strain. Lella aims to make sessions straightforward and focused on what matters to each person.
Her work often centers on life transitions, social isolation, and caregiver stress. She supports people dealing with mood disorders, bipolar concerns, and the burnout that can come from compassionate work. Lella also helps clients who are navigating identity and LGBT-related challenges and those rebuilding self-esteem.
In sessions she uses a collaborative, compassionate style. Conversations are meant to help clients name problems, try new ways of coping, and notice what changes help in daily life. She draws on client-centered methods to keep the person’s priorities central during treatment.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot patterns of thinking that make symptoms worse and to practice small, testable changes. Dialectical behavior strategies are used when people need skills for emotion regulation and tolerating distress.
Lella encourages a steady, practical path toward goals like better mood, clearer career direction, or improved relationships. She works with each person to find realistic steps they can use between sessions. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first session based on availability.
How Lella’s approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s goals first and uses empathetic listening to help clarify what matters. Online sessions following this approach focus on hearing a client’s priorities, shaping goals, and checking progress in simple, practical steps.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is about spotting unhelpful thinking and trying small behavioral experiments. In an online format CBT can guide clients through thought records, activity scheduling, and routines that fit everyday life.
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) teaches skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. When used online, DBT-style work emphasizes practicing short skills between meetings and reviewing what helped or didn’t help.
Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will discuss which methods seem most useful based on the client’s goals, symptoms, and preferred pace. Together they adapt techniques so they fit the person’s schedule and needs.
Session formats are not listed here, so please confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, allow quicker check-ins, and let people try new coping strategies in real time. Those practical advantages help people bring changes from sessions into daily life.
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Experience
15+ years
Credentials
Kentucky
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does Lella help with?
She helps people with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and career issues, mood disorders, ADHD, caregiver stress, isolation, self-esteem, and workplace problems.
What is her approach to therapy?
Her style is compassionate and collaborative, combining client-centered listening with practical techniques from CBT and DBT to build coping skills and clearer thinking.
How much experience does she have?
Lella has 15 years of clinical experience working with adults on mood, work-related stress, and life changes.
What are her credentials and where is she based?
She holds a Kentucky LCSW and practices in Kentucky.
Which languages are supported?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
International clients are not currently accepted.
How are sessions scheduled and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Lella?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a session according to therapist availability.