About Paige
Paige Smart helps people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She focuses on practical steps you can use right away. Paige presents as calm and accepting, aiming to build trust so people feel heard and safe to talk about hard things.
Paige is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, and a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC. She has six years of experience supporting people with anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, panic, grief, addiction concerns, and stress from life changes.
How Paige works
She also works with people facing trauma, relationship and family strain, communication problems, and issues around intimacy and self-esteem. Her way of working starts with listening to the whole picture - biological, psychological, and social factors that shape daily life. From there she and the client set goals together.
Sessions often include skill practice, thinking patterns work, and mindfulness exercises to manage difficult moments. Paige uses tools from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral methods, dialectical behavior strategies, EMDR for trauma processing, and mindfulness techniques. She matches interventions to the person and the problem rather than using a single fixed method.
Therapy with Paige aims to reduce the impact of distressing experiences and increase everyday functioning. She emphasizes partnership, warmth, and non-judgment. People can expect clear goals, short-term coping strategies, and longer-term skill building to support lasting change.
Paige lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Paige works with
The areas below are the ones Paige selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Missouri |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on building a trusting relationship and listening without judgment. Online sessions let this connection develop through regular conversations and check-ins, helping people feel heard even when not in the same room.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new behaviors. In an online setting CBT often uses short exercises, homework, and guided practice that can be reviewed during video or messaging sessions to track progress.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and clearer communication. DBT skills can be taught and practiced in video sessions and reinforced with chat or text between appointments to help during tough moments.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match goals, symptoms, and daily life. That plan can change as progress is made or needs shift.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect: video calls for in-depth conversations, phone sessions for lower bandwidth, live chat for brief check-ins, and text messaging for ongoing support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while keeping consistent momentum toward goals.
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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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