About Yiasha
Yiasha Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with six years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping individuals who are coping with depression, trauma, anxiety, and major life changes. Her approach aims to create a calm, focused space where people can talk through what feels overwhelming and find ways to move forward.
She has spent her career supporting young adults adjusting to new stages of life and people managing long-term mental health challenges.
How Yiasha works
Sessions aim to be practical and solution-oriented. Yiasha uses straightforward tools to reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. In the room she works to shift unhelpful thinking patterns that get in the way of everyday life.
She combines a client-centered style with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Motivational interviewing and solution-focused work are used when clients want clearer steps and goals. Her style is warm and energetic while staying grounded in clear steps.
Yiasha values the time people spend in therapy and treats each session as purposeful. She helps clients build skills they can use outside of sessions. People come to her for a wide range of concerns beyond anxiety and depression.
These include relationship and intimacy issues, grief, parenting challenges, substance concerns, self-esteem and body image, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses attachment, abandonment, blended family matters, and other interpersonal struggles.
Yiasha lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Yiasha works with
The areas below are the ones Yiasha 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
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | South Carolina |
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Online support options
Approach-driven online therapy that fits your life
Yiasha uses client-centered therapy to keep the conversation focused on each person's priorities. That approach means sessions begin with listening and building on what matters most to the client. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, adds a practical layer by looking at thoughts and behaviors that maintain stress and mood problems, and teaching concrete skills to change them. Dialectical behavior therapy, DBT, contributes strategies for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving interpersonal effectiveness when emotions feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to match techniques to their goals, needs, and preferences. Over time methods can be adjusted so the work stays useful and focused on measurable change.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls approximate an in-person session for deeper conversation. Phone sessions reduce bandwidth needs and can fit a midday break. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in more often and use brief problem-solving between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep consistent care while juggling work, school, or family commitments.
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