About Luciana
Luciana Smalls is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina who uses a warm, practical style to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She draws on nearly a decade of counseling experience alongside a long background in human services. Luciana focuses on real-life problems like parenting, adoption and foster care challenges, addiction, grief, and coping with life changes.
Her approach centers on the person in front of her.
How Luciana works
Sessions combine Client-Centered Therapy with tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Luciana also uses mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and narrative methods to help people gain new perspectives and day-to-day skills. She works with common day-to-day struggles such as low self-esteem, anger, impulsivity, and career stress.
Additional focus areas include blended family issues, body image, caregiver stress, communication problems, and hospice or end-of-life concerns. She also addresses concerns related to ADHD, intellectual disability, and intimacy-related issues. Luciana aims to be both supportive and gently challenging.
Therapy typically includes skill building, practical strategies, and collaborative goal setting. Clients and therapist create a plan together that matches needs and progress. Sessions are offered in English and are available through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Luciana practices in South Carolina as an LPC and brings experience helping people move from stuck patterns toward meaningful change.
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What Luciana works with
The areas below are the ones Luciana 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
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 9 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Approaches for online counseling and practical skill building
Luciana uses Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where the client's goals guide the work. This approach focuses on listening, understanding values, and helping people feel heard so they can decide what changes to make.She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT provides concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage low mood, and change unhelpful habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy techniques are added when emotion regulation and impulsivity are issues, offering skills for distress tolerance, mindfulness, and improving relationships.
Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust plans over time. Together they decide whether to emphasize skills practice, reflective work, or both.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls make face-to-face conversation possible from different places. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit ongoing support, quick skill check-ins, or people who prefer writing to talking. These options help fit therapy into busy lives while keeping the focus on progress and skill building.
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