About Aline
Dr. Aline Smith is a California-based licensed marriage and family therapist with 37 years of experience. She focuses on anxiety and stress along with relationship strain, grief, depression, and struggles with addictions or eating concerns.
She aims to meet people where they are and help them take practical steps forward. Dr. Smith listens for each person’s strengths and builds on what already works in their life.
She treats worry and panic with clear tools and helps people improve communication and repair connection in relationships.
Background and approach
She also supports people facing major losses, mood shifts, or struggles with substance use and eating patterns. Her work is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions focus on short-term goals and skills you can use between meetings, such as calming strategies, problem-solving tactics, and ways to change unhelpful routines.
She encourages small, steady changes rather than overnight fixes. Across decades of practice she has worked with a wide range of concerns, including attachment and abandonment wounds, family-of-origin problems, codependency, and difficulties around commitment or divorce. Her approach draws from evidence-based therapeutic techniques tailored to each person’s needs.
Dr. Smith offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. She provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what fits their life.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect you and schedule sessions.
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Care
Dr. Smith uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, usable tools. One common approach emphasizes skills for managing anxiety and stress such as breathing, grounding, and paced exposure to reduce avoidance. These techniques help people reduce intense worry and regain confidence in daily situations.Another common strand centers on improving relationships and attachment. This work looks at communication patterns, boundaries, and trust so people can repair connections and set healthier expectations. It is useful for commitment issues, codependency, and family-of-origin wounds.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you progress. Together you will decide which techniques feel most helpful and practical for your life.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for those with busy schedules or limited mobility. Video calls allow face-to-face work when travel is difficult. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to get support between sessions or when writing feels easier than talking. These options let people fit care into work, family routines, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 37 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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