Dr. LaShaunda Smith

Dr. LaShaunda Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Mississippi. She brings eight years of clinical experience and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, and relationship and family concerns. She speaks plainly and aims to make the first step feel doable for someone who is worried or unsure.

She approaches counseling with the idea that each person is the expert on their own life. Sessions focus on identifying strengths and building practical skills to handle hard moments. People often work on coping with life changes, improving self-esteem, or making sense of grief and trauma.

Her work includes support for career questions, parenting strain, and issues that touch identity such as LGBT concerns and multicultural challenges. She also addresses complex family topics like abandonment, adoption and foster care, blended family challenges, and forgiveness. Practical problem solving is combined with attention to feelings that come up in those conversations.

Dr. Smith uses methods that help people change unhelpful thoughts and notice internal parts that influence behavior. That combination is used to manage symptoms linked to ADHD, bipolar concerns, and compassion fatigue when they affect day-to-day life. Sessions are framed as collaborative, with goals set together.

She invites people to take the small step of starting a conversation. The aim is steady progress rather than quick fixes, and work is paced to fit each person's needs and life situation.

How CBT and Internal Family Systems shape online work

Dr. Smith uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Internal Family Systems to guide online conversations. CBT looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect, and teaches practical tools to cope with anxiety, stress, anger, and mood shifts. Internal Family Systems helps people notice the different parts inside them and understand how those parts influence reactions and relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. Plans are adjusted as progress is made and as life circumstances change.

Confirm the therapist's current session options before booking since formats are not listed here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow check-ins during breaks or after work. It can also let people choose quieter or lower-bandwidth ways to connect when that helps them engage. Licensed professionals adapt pacing and tools so therapy fits daily life rather than adding extra stress.