About Rilda
Rilda Smith is a Licensed Marital and Family Therapist with 22 years of experience who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, and life changes. She writes and talks plainly with clients, focusing on practical ways to cope rather than with jargon. Rilda aims to make the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and individuals looking for steady support.
She uses a systemic lens that looks at how relationships with family, friends, and coworkers affect daily struggles.
Background and approach
That perspective shapes how she talks about problems like communication breakdowns, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. Sessions move at a pace set by the client and focus on skills that can be used between meetings. Rilda blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral and mindfulness strategies.
That means she listens first, then introduces simple tools to change unhelpful thoughts and to calm the body and mind. Motivational interviewing and narrative approaches are added when clients want to clarify goals or reframe their life stories. Her background includes long-term experience supporting people through grief, hospice and end-of-life issues, and both sudden and slow life transitions.
She also assists people facing financial stress, sleep problems, and struggles with self-esteem or anger. Rilda practices in Oklahoma as an OK LMFT and offers sessions in English. She welcomes international clients and uses formats that fit busy schedules.
To begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session.
How these approaches work online
Client-centered therapy begins with attentive listening and helps people shape sessions around their priorities and strengths. Online sessions give space for this same focused conversation, letting the therapist follow the client's lead and set practical goals together.Cognitive behavioral therapy involves identifying thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and testing new responses. In virtual sessions clients can practice new skills during appointments and review short homework between meetings to build momentum on issues such as anxiety, sleep, or ADHD-related routines.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple present-moment practices to reduce stress and improve focus. These techniques translate well to video calls or short text check-ins, where the therapist can guide breathing and attention exercises and troubleshoot how to fit them into a client's day.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, try different techniques, and adjust plans based on what helps most for the client's needs and preferences.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face work when visual cues help, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging suits brief check-ins or busy schedules. These options make it easier to maintain regular contact, practice new skills between sessions, and fit therapy into family and work routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 22 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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