About Stephanie
Stephanie Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Tennessee with 17 years of experience. She focuses on helping people handle stress, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, and challenges tied to relationships and parenting. Her work often includes support for trauma and abuse recovery, addiction concerns, grief, and sleep problems.
She also pays attention to issues like abandonment, adoption and foster care experiences, codependency, and low self-esteem. Stephanie uses straightforward talking, practical skills, and evidence-informed approaches in sessions.
How Stephanie works
Stephanie describes her style as compassionate and collaborative. She helps people build clearer communication, stronger coping skills, and healthier emotional patterns. Sessions aim to increase self-awareness and create small, doable changes that fit each person’s life.
Her background includes long-term practice with adults facing life transitions and emotional pain. She combines methods such as cognitive work, emotion-focused strategies, trauma processing, mindfulness, and motivational conversation to match the concern at hand. People who choose Stephanie can expect a steady, calm presence and a focus on practical tools.
She will work with each person to identify goals, try strategies in session, and adjust approaches when needed. The aim is clearer thinking, improved relationships, and better day-to-day coping. Stephanie practices in Tennessee and offers session formats that fit different schedules and communication styles.
She speaks English and brings nearly two decades of counseling experience to her work.
Stephanie lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Stephanie works with
The areas below are the ones Stephanie selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 17 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Tennessee |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How Stephanie’s approaches work online
Emotion-focused work helps people notice and name feelings, and then use that awareness to improve relationships and emotional responses. It can be useful when strong emotions make communication or daily life harder.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors together. It helps people find and test unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety, depression, and mood symptoms.
EMDR, or eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, is a trauma-focused method that supports processing distressing memories and reducing their emotional intensity. It is often used when past events continue to cause ongoing stress or symptoms.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, background, and comfort level. Strategies may change over time as progress is reviewed and new needs appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and preferences. Video sessions let people work face-to-face when a longer conversation is needed. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is a concern. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, coaching between sessions, or when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life and still use the approaches described above.
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