Stephanie Smith

Stephanie Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee with 17 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, struggling with anxiety, or facing difficult life changes. Her work also includes support for mood concerns such as depression and bipolar symptoms, as well as issues related to anger and addiction.

Stephanie keeps sessions straightforward and focused. She listens first, then helps people set small, achievable goals. Sessions often include practical skills for managing strong emotions and improving day-to-day routines like sleep and coping strategies.

Her background includes long-term work with people affected by trauma, adoption and foster care concerns, and family problems. She integrates approaches that help process past hurts while also addressing current relationship and communication difficulties.

Therapy with her often covers grief, self-esteem, and rebuilding trust in oneself after loss or difficult experiences. She also supports people dealing with attention differences and the everyday impacts they cause.

Stephanie emphasizes collaboration. She works with each person to choose approaches that match their needs, whether the focus is mood management, addiction recovery, or improving how they relate to others. She aims to help clients build skills they can use between sessions to handle life’s challenges more confidently.

How therapeutic approaches translate to online care

Emotionally-Focused Therapy, or EFT, focuses on how emotions show up in relationships and in the way people connect with themselves. In practice it helps identify patterns in how someone responds to stress or conflict and then builds new ways of responding that feel safer and more effective.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and learning practical strategies to change behaviors and reduce distress, which is useful for anxiety, mood, and anger issues.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps people work through traumatic memories by guiding them to reprocess upsetting experiences. It is often used when past events continue to cause strong reactions in daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to choose methods that match their goals, preferences, and what they bring to sessions. That decision is revisited as progress is made so the plan stays useful.

If you prefer online sessions, confirm the available session options before booking. Online care can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, avoid travel time, and use shorter check-ins when schedules are tight. Ask about formats and scheduling when you complete the matching questionnaire so your sessions fit your routine.