Yumi Lemaster, LCSW
Hawaii · 13 years in practice
Yumi Lemaster is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of practice helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles.
License and registration
- LCSW, Hawaii
- LCSW-4004 · expires June 2028
- LCSW, Texas
- 64031 · expires April 2027
- LCSW, Virginia
- 0904016208 · expires June 2027
- NPI
- 1699167346 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 13
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Yumi
Yumi Lemaster is a licensed clinical social worker with 13 years of practice helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. She draws on a straightforward, person-centered style and encourages clients to guide the work so therapy matches their needs. Yumi communicates with warmth and practical empathy and aims to help people find inner strength and clearer direction.
Her approach blends Existential ideas about meaning and choice with attachment-focused ways of understanding relationships.
Background and approach
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and dialectical behavior skills to manage strong emotions. Sessions often include teaching coping skills and practicing them between meetings. Yumi’s background includes work as an Army social worker, where she supported service members facing trauma, grief, substance concerns, and adjustment challenges.
That experience shaped her focus on practical strategies, psychoeducation, and hands-on exercises clients can use in daily life. In the room she starts where the client is and follows the client’s lead. She values clear feedback and a two-way relationship so the work stays relevant and focused on goals.
Many clients find the mix of reflection, skill-building, and straightforward guidance useful. Yumi provides therapy to people dealing with issues such as eating and sleep problems, caregiving stress, addiction, intimacy-related concerns, body image, grief, and feelings of emptiness. She practices in Texas and meets with people in English by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Yumi lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
- Depression
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Yumi names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that shape online sessions
Existential Therapy helps people look at meaning, choice, and personal values. It supports those facing big life questions, emptiness, grief, or times of transition by inviting honest reflection about what matters. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how relationships and early bonds influence current struggles. It can help people understand patterns in their connections, improve communication, and address attachment issues or family of origin concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Yumi collaborates with each person to choose which methods to try first, combining meaning-focused reflection with practical skills when needed. Goals, preferences, and how someone responds to an idea guide adjustments over time, and feedback is welcomed to keep the plan useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people see nonverbal cues and do deeper conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching on skills, or stepping through a difficult moment between sessions. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, caregiving, or travel schedules while keeping therapy consistent.
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Questions people ask
What concerns does Yumi often address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, grief, and many related concerns like body image, eating and sleeping problems, and caregiver stress.
What is her therapeutic style like?
She uses a person-centered manner that encourages clients to guide the work, combined with practical skills and reflective conversation to help manage feelings and make changes.
How much experience does she have?
Yumi has 13 years of clinical experience, including time as an Army social worker supporting people with trauma, grief, substance issues, and adjustment challenges.
What credentials and location apply to her practice?
She is a licensed clinical social worker, LCSW, licensed in Hawaii and Virginia, and practices out of Texas.
Which languages are available for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and international clients are accepted.
What session formats does she offer online?
She meets by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to provide flexibility in how people check in and work on goals.
How is cost handled for sessions?
Cost varies by location and therapist availability and 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 a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
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