About Katina
Katina Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, addiction issues, trauma, mood concerns, and ADHD. She speaks plain, direct language and aims to make the first steps toward help feel manageable for a worried parent or adult. Her style centers on practical tools and steady support rather than jargon.
With six years as an LPC and a long background in social services, she draws on experience with adoption and foster care, aging and geriatric issues, substance use, and survivors of domestic violence.
Background and approach
That history informs a practical approach to common problems like depression, low self-esteem, grief, anger, and relationship struggles. In sessions she uses methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and Trauma-Focused Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors.
She focuses on skills people can use between sessions, such as mindset shifts, coping techniques, and step-by-step problem solving. Katina aims to build quick rapport and create a calm space for people to talk through difficult experiences. She emphasizes collaboration - clients and therapist work together to set goals and track progress with small, achievable steps.
Her background includes work with adults and people with intellectual or developmental differences, and she supports clients facing co-occurring issues like substance use and mental health challenges. Katina uses straightforward feedback and encouragement to help clients strengthen coping, improve communication, and build hope.
Evidence-based approaches and accessible online care
Katina commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing in online sessions. CBT helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, and it is useful for anxiety, depression, ADHD-related challenges, and stress. Motivational Interviewing is a conversational method that helps clients find their own reasons and motivation to make changes, often used for addiction and habit shifts.Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work. She will collaborate with the client to choose or combine methods based on the person's goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. Together they set small goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan as progress is tracked.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face interaction for skill practice and feedback. Phone sessions can be a good option when less bandwidth is needed or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging let people send updates, ask quick questions, or do written reflections between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into school, work, or caregiving routines.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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