About Terriee
Terriee Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, mood disorders, and addiction concerns. She focuses on practical steps that reduce overwhelm and improve day-to-day functioning. Her style aims to be straightforward and compassionate so people feel heard and guided toward realistic change.
She blends several evidence-informed methods to fit each person’s needs. Sessions often include mindful exercises, values-based goal setting, and tools to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors.
How Terriee works
Conversations are collaborative, with attention to what is most urgent for the person in front of her. Terriee draws on 11 years of clinical experience and a counseling master’s degree to shape treatment plans. She has worked with people facing complex and overlapping challenges such as co-occurring substance use, trauma-related symptoms, grief, and mood instability.
Expect a focus on small, measurable steps that build resilience over time. Her work also covers concerns like sleep disruption, body image and eating-related issues, caregiver stress, and burnout among first responders and veterans. Motivational techniques are used when ambivalence about change comes up, helping people find their own reasons to move forward.
Sessions are offered remotely by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging to make contact easier for busy schedules. Terriee aims to help people create manageable routines and compassionate self-talk so they can navigate life changes with greater confidence.
Terriee lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Terriee works with
The areas below are the ones Terriee 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
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Practical approaches for online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is about identifying personal values and taking small steps that align with what matters most, while also using mindfulness to notice thoughts without getting stuck on them. It can help people struggling with anxiety, avoidance, or life transitions who want a values-focused plan.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a warm, accepting conversation where the therapist listens closely and follows the person’s lead. This approach helps people feel understood and build self-directed insight and confidence.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with concrete behavioral experiments. It is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep issues, and many everyday problems where changing thinking and behavior brings relief.
Finding the right mix of strategies is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals and preferences, and then adapt techniques as progress is made.
Online sessions via video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for regular sessions that benefit from face-to-face interaction, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be helpful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options give flexibility so people can keep therapy consistent with daily routines.
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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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