When You’re the One Everyone Depends On—Who Supports You?
Online therapy in Missouri for caregivers and helping professionals who feel stretched thin, but keep showing up.
Secure Telehealth
Appointments from the privacy of your own space
Throughout Missouri
Serving clients in rural and metropolitan communities
Private Pay & Insurance
HealthLink and selected Medicare plans
Serving adults through online therapy across Missouri, including the St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas, Springfield, Jefferson City, Columbia, Washington, Missouri, and rural communities statewide.
A PLACE FOR YOU
You’re the one others rely on.
The steady one. The capable one. The one who holds it together.
But lately, your patience is thinner than it used to be, and you’re carrying more than anyone realizes. You’re thoughtful and self-aware, yet some patterns remain difficult to change. Past trauma or chronic stress may be affecting your relationships, your body, or the way you speak to yourself.
You continue to function well professionally. From the outside, you may appear successful—even thriving. But internally, something feels off, and there is not much space for you.
This is where we begin.
This is not therapy based on generic advice or the same list of coping skills handed to everyone. Practical tools can be useful, but they are only part of the work.
I’m Yael DiPlacido, MSW, LCSW. I specialize in working with therapists, teachers, healthcare workers, first responders, caregivers, and others who are accustomed to being the support system.
I will not treat you as a problem to be fixed. I bring clinical knowledge, honest observations, and direct feedback; you bring your knowledge of yourself, your life, and what matters to you. We decide together where the work needs to go.
Your therapy is tailored to you and may include:
Trauma Recovery
Processing unresolved trauma using approaches such as EMDR and parts work, at a pace that supports safety and stability. We pay attention not only to what happened, but also to how those experiences continue to affect your mind, body, relationships, and nervous system—and how to begin transforming those impacts into resilience and strength moving forward.
Stress and Burnout Recovery
Understanding how chronic stress affects your mind and body, identifying the patterns that keep the pressure going, and finding practical ways to protect your energy, establish boundaries, and recover.
Relationship Patterns
Examining communication patterns, attachment dynamics, and the roles you tend to assume in relationships. We look at how past experiences influence present relationships and work on different ways of responding.
Mind-Body Integration
Using neuroscience-informed education, emotional awareness, and somatic approaches to help you recognize and work with your nervous-system responses rather than being controlled by them.
Whole-Person Approach
Making room for your values, culture, lived experience, creativity, and spirituality when they are relevant to you—alongside science-based clinical approaches.
ONLINE THERAPY SERVICES IN MISSOURI
Ways We Can Work Together
Individual Therapy
For adults dealing with anxiety, burnout, perfectionism, difficult boundaries, life transitions, or patterns that remain hard to change.
Online Couples Counseling
Communication training for couples stuck in recurring, painful conversations. Learn to change unhelpful patterns, work through conflict, repair old hurts, and grow closer in understanding.
Online EMDR & Trauma Therapy
Online EMDR and trauma therapy provides a gentle, effective way to release past experiences that continue to affect your mind, body, relationships, or sense of safety.
Online Therapy for Helping Professionals
Online therapy for therapists, healthcare workers, educators, first responders, and caregivers who are accustomed to supporting others—and need a place where they can be supported, too.
ABOUT YAEL
A thoughtful, engaged approach to therapy
I’m Yael DiPlacido, MSW, LCSW. I have nearly twenty years of clinical experience and have been in private practice since 2012. My work integrates EMDR, parts work, Gestalt therapy, mindfulness, somatic approaches, and practical nervous-system education.
I listen closely, but I will not only sit back and nod. I offer honest reflection, compassionate challenge, and approaches chosen for you—not a formula you must fit.
Ready to begin?
New clients can use the secure contact form to ask about availability. Current clients can sign in to the Client Portal.
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Life Balance Counseling 