About Jerra
Jerra Smith is a licensed professional counselor with a Master of Science and an LPC designation. She works from Mississippi and brings three years of counseling experience to her practice. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, mood struggles, and relationship problems.
Her background includes work with substance use concerns alongside common life challenges such as career stress and parenting strain. She helps people facing trauma, anger, low self-esteem, and major life transitions.
How Jerra works
She also addresses issues like co-morbidity, communication problems, and workplace difficulties. Jerra uses clear, practical methods in sessions. She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and mindfulness practices to help people notice patterns, try different behaviors, and build everyday coping skills.
Sessions are tuned to the client’s needs in the moment rather than following a fixed script. Her style is respectful and goal-oriented. She aims to empower clients to make changes they can maintain outside of sessions.
People can expect straightforward conversation, skill-building, and check-ins on progress. Jerra works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, bipolar mood challenges, family problems, grief from infidelity, guilt and shame, social anxiety, pregnancy and childbirth related stress, and issues around self-love and isolation. She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences.
Jerra lists 2 ways of working on the entry:
What Jerra works with
The areas below are the ones Jerra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 3 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
How CBT and Mindfulness Translate to Online Therapy
CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new behaviors. It helps with anxiety, depression, worry, and reactions to stress by breaking problems into manageable steps and practicing changes between sessions.Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity. It can be useful for managing anger, stress, cravings related to addiction, and persistent worry by building awareness of moment-to-moment experience.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they will try approaches and adjust techniques so the work fits the person's life and priorities.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer session is helpful. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a brief check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging let people exchange shorter messages between sessions and keep momentum on skill practice.
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