- Years in practice
- 19
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Stress, Anxiety
- Focus
- LGBT
- Focus
- Grief
About Sylvia
Sylvia Lee is a licensed professional counselor with 19 years of experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, relationship concerns, and parenting challenges. She centers a caring, conversational style and treats each person as the expert on their own life. Sylvia emphasizes practical steps and steady support so clients can move forward at their own pace.
Sylvia listens without judgment and offers a calm space to talk through what feels overwhelming.
Background and approach
She can help when anxiety or depression makes daily life harder, or when a major change or loss leaves you unsure how to cope. She also supports people exploring intimacy, identity, and relationship patterns. Her approach is straightforward and goal-oriented.
Sylvia uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities, and cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors. She also draws on motivational interviewing and solution-focused ideas when clients want concrete goals and short-term plans. In sessions she focuses on small, manageable changes and on rebuilding strengths people already have.
Sylvia pays attention to how life events, identity, and communication habits affect wellbeing. She offers practical tools for stress, parenting challenges, ADHD-related struggles, and relationship communication. Sylvia works with adults from diverse backgrounds across many concerns, including family and career stress, caregiving strain, chronic illness, and coping with loss.
She practices in Wisconsin and conducts sessions in English.
What Sylvia works with
Everything Sylvia lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Sylvia helps people with.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Sylvia lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How Sylvia's Approaches Work Online
Sylvia uses client-centered therapy to follow each person’s goals and priorities. That approach means she listens carefully, asks questions to clarify what matters most, and adapts sessions around the client’s own expertise about their life. It works well for people who want a collaborative, respectful process.She also makes practical use of cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. Together a client and Sylvia identify patterns that cause distress and try small experiments to test new ways of thinking and behaving. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, stress, and many day-to-day problems.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. Sylvia discusses options with each client and tailors methods to fit goals, preferences, and the issue at hand. That collaborative planning helps set clear, achievable steps and keeps sessions focused on what the client wants to change.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video works well for a full conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family and work schedules.
Questions people ask about Sylvia
What kinds of problems can Sylvia help with?
Sylvia helps with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, parenting challenges, relationship and intimacy issues, LGBT-related concerns, trauma and abuse, ADHD, and related life changes.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is conversational and supportive, focusing on what matters to the client. She blends client-centered listening with practical techniques such as cognitive behavioral strategies and solution-focused planning.
How much experience does she have?
Sylvia has 19 years of professional counseling experience working with adults on a wide range of life and relationship concerns.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Wisconsin LPC credential and practices in Wisconsin.
Which languages and international arrangements are supported?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not currently accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be done by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits the client best.
How are fees and payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete the short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
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