Kristen Smith, LMHC

Kristen Smith, Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Florida, has 27 years of clinical experience helping people with addictions, relationship concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, depression, anxiety, and stress. She works with people who face challenges around self-esteem, grief, sleeping and eating problems, parenting strain, bipolar disorder, and career stress. Sessions also address ADHD, compassion fatigue, and coping with life changes.

Kristen uses client-centered therapy to focus on each person's strengths and lived experience. She adds cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical behavior approaches are used for emotion regulation and managing intense feelings when needed. She describes therapy as collaborative and practical.

In sessions she listens for what a person already knows about their situation. She helps build concrete skills and small steps to test new ways of coping. Conversations cover patterns that affect relationships, work, and daily routines. Kristen pays attention to how past family experiences shape current reactions.

Her additional focus areas include abandonment, adoption and foster care issues, attachment concerns, autism and Asperger syndrome, caregiver stress, codependency, divorce and separation, and family of origin issues. She also addresses body image, dissociation, avoidant and dependent personality patterns, and aging and geriatric concerns.

People can expect straightforward talk about goals and options. Kristen frames progress as practical changes and clearer choices. She works to make sessions useful for everyday life.

Therapeutic approaches used in online sessions