Luciana Smalls

Luciana Smalls is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina with nine years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and relationship concerns. Her approach aims to give practical tools people can use day to day.

She uses a client-centered stance that listens to each person's story. From there she blends cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy skills and mindfulness practices are added when people need emotion regulation and grounding tools.

Luciana often helps with parenting, adoption and foster care issues, blended family concerns, and communication problems. She also supports people facing grief, addiction, self-esteem struggles, and career changes. Anger and impulsivity are included among her focus areas, and she works to turn those experiences into manageable responses.

Her style is warm and direct. She offers practical strategies, teaches coping skills, and helps people set achievable goals. Each person makes a plan that fits their needs and values.

Luciana has more than two decades of experience in human services alongside her clinical years. She emphasizes respect for diverse cultures, sexual orientations, and identities. The work in sessions centers on building skills, understanding patterns, and making gradual, concrete changes.

How her approaches work in online therapy

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person's experience. The therapist follows the client's lead, offers empathy, and helps people find their own solutions. This approach is useful for building trust and clarifying goals.

Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches people to spot unhelpful thoughts and test them against real-life evidence. It includes practical exercises and homework to change thinking patterns that keep stress, anxiety, and anger active.

Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, provides concrete skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions. It offers grounding, distress-tolerance techniques, and tools for improving emotional regulation.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and revise the plan as progress is made.

Confirm the current session formats before booking, since available options are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It can also let people use tools learned in sessions right away in their daily life while getting guidance from a licensed professional.