About Charmaine
Charmaine Smith offers calm, practical support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, or relationship strain. She greets each person with respect and a straightforward focus on what they want to change. Charmaine uses short-term strategies and longer-term work, depending on needs and goals.
She draws on 17 years of clinical experience and holds credentials as an LMFT, MD, and LCMFT. Her work addresses stress, anxiety, relationship and family concerns, self-esteem, and coaching for motivation and confidence.
How Charmaine works
She also helps people navigate adoption and foster care issues, blended family challenges, body image worries, caregiver stress, divorce and separation, and communication or commitment difficulties. Sessions are tailored to the individual. Charmaine listens first, then offers practical tools such as thought-focused exercises and emotionally focused conversations to improve connection and reduce distress.
She blends acceptance-based ideas with problem-solving techniques when helpful. Clients can expect clear explanations and steps to try between sessions. She aims to make progress feel doable rather than overwhelming by breaking problems into small, manageable actions.
Charmaine emphasizes rebuilding confidence and strengthening communication skills. Her practice is based in Kentucky and sessions are conducted in English. The focus is on steady, collaborative work that fits each person's life circumstances and goals.
Charmaine lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Charmaine works with
The areas below are the ones Charmaine selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMFT, MD, LCMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Kentucky |
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Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, often called ACT, helps people notice painful thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on values and small actions to move toward a meaningful life and can help with anxiety, stress, and motivation. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns influence current bonds and communication. It helps people understand emotional reactions and build more supported ways of connecting with others.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She will collaborate to try approaches that fit and adjust plans based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage. Video calls allow face-to-face conversations for deeper emotional work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when video is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or support between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and try different ways of working without traveling.
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