About LaShaunda
Dr. LaShaunda Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Mississippi with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on practical strategies to reduce stress and anxiety and helps people manage life transitions.
Her approach aims to make therapy straightforward and usable in everyday life. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help clients notice patterns in thinking and behavior and try small, testable changes. Internal Family Systems is part of her work too and helps people understand different parts of themselves that show up during stress or relationship conflict.
Background and approach
These methods are applied in ways that match each person's goals and pace. Dr. Smith works with common concerns such as relationship and family problems, parenting strain, grief, trauma and abuse, and challenges around identity including LGBT issues.
She also supports people dealing with anger, low self-esteem, career stress, bipolar mood challenges, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related difficulties. Additional focus areas include adoption and foster care issues, blended family dynamics, and coping after disasters. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
She helps people identify strengths, set small goals, and practice new skills between meetings. Progress is measured in everyday changes, like better sleep, clearer communication, or calmer reactions. To begin, she asks clients to share their story and current needs so together they can choose practical steps forward.
The aim is steady, manageable improvement rather than quick fixes.
How CBT and IFS Shape Online Sessions
Dr. Smith commonly draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try clearer, more helpful behaviors. In a few sessions clients learn simple experiments and tools they can use between meetings to reduce anxiety and improve routines.She also uses Internal Family Systems to help clients name and understand different parts of themselves that clash during stress or relationship conflict. That work helps people respond to strong emotions with curiosity instead of blame, which can be useful for grief, trauma, anger, and ADHD-related overwhelm.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. She works together with each person to choose which methods fit their goals, needs, and preferences. That collaborative process can change over time as progress is made and new concerns come up.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let you work face-to-face when you want deeper conversation. Phone sessions are a good option when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework updates, or when shorter contact fits a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent with real-life schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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