About Kristen
Kristen Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 27 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate depression, anxiety, stress, addictions, and ADHD, and she aims to make the first step toward change feel possible. Kristen views each person as the expert on their own life and brings a steady, respectful presence to sessions.
She keeps conversations practical and down to earth. Sessions often center on immediate problems like sleep or eating concerns, relationship and intimacy challenges, or coping with grief and major life changes.
Background and approach
She also addresses longer-term patterns such as attachment issues, codependency, or a history of trauma and abuse. Kristen draws on client-centered methods to listen closely and shape therapy around each person's goals. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills to strengthen emotion regulation and distress tolerance.
These approaches are used flexibly to match what a person needs in the moment. Many people work on practical steps in session: building routines for better sleep and eating, practicing communication skills, or learning tools to reduce impulsive behavior. Kristen also supports career concerns, caregiver stress, and challenges tied to adoption, aging, or neurodiversity such as autism and Asperger syndrome.
She offers phone, video, live chat, and text-based messaging formats to fit different schedules. Sessions are offered in English and are provided by a Florida LMHC who has worked across clinical settings for nearly three decades.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Kristen uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the person sets priorities and she listens deeply to what matters most. This approach helps when someone wants to talk through identity, relationship, or life-purpose concerns and be heard while choosing their own direction.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try different actions. CBT is practical for worries, depression, ADHD-related planning struggles, and behaviors that interfere with daily life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills are used to teach concrete tools for managing strong emotions, reducing impulsive responses, and improving interpersonal effectiveness.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit their situation, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face interaction and skills practice, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or chat can fit short check-ins or layered support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and try different formats to see what helps most.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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