About Lewis
Lewis Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with 25 years of experience helping people through difficult life moments. He focuses on practical steps and steady support when someone is feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, or grief. He works in and around the District of Columbia and uses a blend of evidence-based methods to match each person's needs.
Sessions are straightforward and goal-oriented, with room to talk through emotions and figure out what helps day to day.
How Lewis works
Lewis pays attention to family patterns, communication problems, and the ways past losses or trauma show up now. He also helps people manage mood disorders like depression and bipolar, and addresses issues such as ADHD, relationship strain, anger, and intimacy concerns. His style is collaborative and down-to-earth.
He listens for what matters to the person in front of him, then uses tools from approaches like cognitive work, emotion-focused strategies, and solution-focused planning to test what improves daily life. Lewis also supports people facing caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care questions, and challenges tied to aging or blended families.
Over time he helps clients reduce harmful behaviors, build clearer communication, and regain a sense of control and purpose. To begin, he asks about current struggles and what a better week would look like. From there he and the person set small, measurable steps and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Lewis lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Lewis works with
The areas below are the ones Lewis selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 25 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | District of Columbia |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. The therapist follows the person’s lead, reflects what they say, and helps them find their own answers; this suits concerns like low self-esteem, grief, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions. It uses simple exercises and experiments to change unhelpful thinking patterns and behavior, which helps with anxiety, depression, and mood regulation.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice, name, and work with strong emotions so they stop driving reactive behavior. It is useful for relationship strain, intimacy-related issues, and processing past hurts.
Lewis treats choosing an approach as a team effort. He will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what actually helps the person meet their goals. The first sessions are often about deciding which mix of methods feels most useful.
Online therapy lets people use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on needs and schedule. Video is good for a fuller conversational session, phone can be lighter and easier when bandwidth is limited, and messaging or live chat work well for brief check-ins or homework between sessions. These formats make it simpler to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel and still keep progress moving forward.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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