Lona Champagne , LCSW, LISW

Lona Champagne is a licensed clinical social worker with 15 years of experience helping people through major life changes and relationship challenges. She offers calm, practical support for women facing pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, fertility concerns, and broader family transitions. Her approach is straightforward and grounded in everyday problem solving.

Lona focuses on common concerns like anxiety, depression, stress, grief, and self-esteem. She also works with people dealing with addiction, trauma and abuse, anger, and obsessions or compulsions. Many clients seek her help when navigating divorce, blended family issues, codependency, or commitment worries.

Sessions emphasize clear goals and realistic steps. Lona listens to what matters most and helps people build coping skills they can use between appointments. She values simple tools that fit into daily life rather than long lists of theory.

Her background includes practice in Louisiana as an LCSW and an LISW. That clinical experience informs how she guides people through mourning, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and repairing strained family relationships. She helps clients untangle guilt, shame, jealousy, and feelings of emptiness.

People working with Lona typically focus on improving communication, managing strong emotions, and finding purpose after loss or big change. She offers practical strategies for career stress, life purpose questions, and coping when isolation feels overwhelming.

Evidence-informed approaches for online care

Many of the techniques Lona uses are evidence-based and focused on skills people can practice between sessions. One common approach emphasizes coping skills and behavioral changes to reduce anxiety and manage depression by building routines, problem-solving steps, and emotion regulation strategies. This helps when stress, low mood, or daily overwhelm interfere with functioning.

Another useful approach centers on grief work and processing loss in stages, helping people name what they are feeling, find ways to remember and honor what was lost, and gradually create new routines and purpose. This can ease hospice, end-of-life, and bereavement concerns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will ask about goals, current challenges, and personal preferences, then suggest techniques to try and adjust those choices over time based on what helps most.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for a session that mirrors an in-person visit, phone calls are helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into work, parenting, and busy schedules.