About Alba
Alba Perez Smith is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) based in Rhode Island. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, mood shifts, or ADHD. She also supports people facing grief, trauma, relationship strain, sleep trouble, and identity questions.
Her style is straightforward and strengths-focused. She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for practical steps that fit day-to-day realities.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to build skills for managing strong emotions, improving routines, and handling impulsivity or low motivation. Alba draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to tailor a plan that matches a person’s needs. She uses clear goals and simple tools so progress is easier to notice.
Over time clients practice new habits that reduce symptoms and make everyday tasks feel more doable. She speaks English and Spanish and has three years of experience as an LICSW. Her background includes work with people dealing with addiction, compassion fatigue, and complicated family histories, including adoption and blended family concerns.
Alba listens for the practical obstacles that make change hard and helps design steps around them. People who come to her often want coaching for career stress, help after trauma, or support navigating gender and identity matters. Alba welcomes direct, honest conversations and helps clients set realistic, measurable goals they can act on between sessions.
How Alba Uses Evidence-Based Methods in Online Therapy
Alba works with practical, evidence-based techniques that teach skills people can use right away. One common approach focuses on building routine and planning skills to reduce overwhelm and manage ADHD-related challenges; this involves breaking tasks into small steps and testing what fits a person’s day. Another approach targets emotion regulation and coping strategies to handle anxiety, mood swings, and strong reactions; it teaches breathing, grounding, and thought-management tools people can practice between sessions.Finding the right method is part of the work together. Alba talks with each person about their goals, preferences, and day-to-day limits and then adjusts techniques to suit their life. That collaborative process helps tailor the plan so it feels useful rather than burdensome.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets people use face-to-face interaction for in-depth work, phone works when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, and messaging or live chat can support shorter updates or tools between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Rhode Island
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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