About Stephanie
Stephanie Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of experience based in Tennessee. She helps people working through stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD-related concerns. Her focus also includes trauma, relationship strain, and problems with sleep and mood.
She uses practical, down-to-earth methods so people learn skills they can use at home. Sessions emphasize clear goals, coping tools, and better communication. The aim is to reduce overwhelm and build steady routines that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Her work covers addiction recovery, grief, and challenges tied to adoption and foster care. She also supports those dealing with abandonment issues, codependency, and family conflict. Treatment plans are shaped around each person’s history and current needs.
Stephanie integrates several therapeutic approaches to suit different problems. She blends cognitive techniques that target unhelpful thinking, mindfulness strategies to manage stress, and trauma-focused methods for painful memories. The style is collaborative and paced to match what a client can handle.
People who come to her can expect practical tools for coping, clearer communication skills, and strategies to improve sleep and self-esteem. She prioritizes steady progress over quick fixes. Stephanie aims to create a calm, respectful space where people can work toward meaningful change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Stephanie frequently uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that increase stress or anxiety. CBT is practical and goal oriented, useful for mood disorders, ADHD-related organization struggles, and sleep problems.She also uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to improve how people name and express emotions in close relationships. EFT helps people understand attachment patterns and practice new ways of communicating during conflict.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Stephanie treats the choice of methods as a collaboration, adjusting techniques to match a person’s goals, history, and how they prefer to work. She checks in often to see what is helping and what needs to change.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when schedules align, phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be a good shorter option, and live chat or text messaging support quick check-ins or ongoing coaching between sessions. These formats offer flexibility for people juggling work, parenting, or transportation limits, while keeping therapeutic progress consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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