About Liz
Liz Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) with ten years of experience. She works with people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, grief, mood concerns, and issues around intimacy and relationships. She speaks English and Spanish and practices from Florida.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her. She listens without judgment and helps clients make their own choices.
How Liz works
Sessions are collaborative and paced to what each person needs in the moment. Therapy may include practical skills from cognitive behavioral therapy to manage worrying thoughts and behaviors. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used to help with intense emotions and improving day-to-day coping.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing can be offered for those wanting to address traumatic memories. She uses mindfulness strategies to build awareness and reduce reactivity. Sessions can also focus on specific life concerns like career stress, body image, eating and sleeping problems, or managing ADHD symptoms.
Work often blends short-term problem-solving with deeper attention to how patterns started. Liz aims to create straightforward, usable tools people can try between sessions. She supports exploration of identity, grief, and recovery from substance use without pressuring any particular outcome.
Her style is calm, direct, and focused on practical steps. People who choose her can expect a mix of listening, skill-building, and real-world planning. Scheduling and session format are set to fit each person's needs and routine.
Liz lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Liz works with
The areas below are the ones Liz selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Registers | LMHC, LCPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 10 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches for online work and practical coping
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and supporting a person's choices. It emphasizes empathy and helps people feel heard while they decide what changes to try. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns. CBT can help with anxiety, depression, sleep, and behavior changes. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) helps people reduce the intensity of traumatic memories by using structured processing techniques and is often used for trauma-related symptoms.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to pick methods that fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That may mean starting with skills-based work and later using trauma processing, or mixing approaches as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts between sessions and fit support into busy days. These formats make regular work possible while accommodating different schedules and preferences.
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