Lyda Will-Hoover, LCSW
Pennsylvania · 10 years in practice
Lyda Will-Hoover is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes.
License and registration
- LCSW, Pennsylvania
- CW023378 · expires February 2027
- NPI
- 1922706563 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 10
- 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 Lyda
Lyda Will-Hoover is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She also supports those coping with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, trauma, and struggles with addictions. Lyda writes plainly and listens closely to understand what matters most to each person.
Lyda aims to make sessions feel calm and straightforward. She creates space for people to name their feelings and think about what small changes might help.
Background and approach
Her style is warm and down-to-earth, with a focus on practical steps alongside emotional work. She draws from approaches such as Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. That means she works with emotions, values, and everyday thoughts and behaviors to help people move toward the life they want.
Lyda brings about ten years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker, practicing in Pennsylvania. She uses what she has learned to tailor sessions to each person’s needs, rather than offering one fixed method. Many people meet with Lyda to address issues like attachment questions, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and challenges tied to adoption or blended families.
She keeps language simple and focuses on actions clients can try between sessions.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Lyda lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Lyda names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
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Online support
How her therapeutic approaches work online
Lyda uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to help people identify and work through strong feelings that affect their relationships and sense of self. EFT focuses on what emotions are communicating and on creating new ways of connecting with those feelings. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify their values and take practical steps toward them even when emotions feel difficult. Attachment-Based Therapy informs her work when early relationship patterns are influencing current difficulties. Finding the right approach is part of the process. Lyda works collaboratively to see which methods fit a person’s goals, needs, and preferences, and she adjusts plans as therapy progresses. Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging can make it easier to fit brief conversations into a busy day or to continue work between sessions.We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What problems does Lyda help with?
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting concerns, trauma, grief, and struggles with addictions. Additional focus areas include attachment issues, body image, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and concerns related to adoption or blended families.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is warm, straightforward, and practical. Sessions focus on naming emotions, building coping skills, and trying small changes between meetings.
How much experience does she have?
She has about ten years of experience working as a licensed clinical social worker. Her background includes supporting people through family conflict, parenting issues, and mood concerns.
Where is Lyda licensed and based?
Lyda holds a LCSW credential and practices in Pennsylvania. Her listing shows the state where she is licensed.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How does cost and payment work?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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