About Anastasia
Anastasia Smith-McEwen is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship problems, low self-esteem, depression, and life transitions. She also works with concerns such as addictions, grief, parenting strain, anger, career issues, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and intimacy-related challenges. Anastasia practices in Mississippi and communicates in English.
She brings 11 years of counseling experience across several settings. Her background includes home-based foster care work, crisis counseling at a community mental health center, and therapy in an acute inpatient facility.
Background and approach
Those roles gave her experience guiding people through intense and sudden life changes. Anastasia uses conversational, goal-focused methods in sessions. She draws on Client-Centered Therapy to build a respectful, listening space, and uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns.
She also uses Solution-Focused and Motivational Interviewing techniques to set clear goals and support motivation for change. Sessions can be individual work or involve group-style skills practice when useful. Anastasia helps people pick practical tools they can use between meetings.
She emphasizes short, usable strategies for managing anxiety and stress, and clearer steps for resolving relationship and parenting strains. Her approach is straightforward and collaborative. She invites people to set priorities and track small changes over time.
Anastasia aims to make therapy feel usable for everyday life and to help people build better routines and coping skills.
Approaches that translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's experience. It helps people feel heard and shapes sessions around their goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the thoughts and behaviors that keep stress or anxiety going and teaches practical exercises to change them. Mindfulness Therapy trains attention and calm, and can help with anxiety, stress, and mood regulation.Choosing which approach to use is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about current needs, what has worked before, and what feels manageable. Together they set goals and try methods that fit the person's pace and preferences, adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online work offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let people use visual cues and real-time conversation. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a more personal-sounding check-in is preferred. Live chat and text-based messaging make it possible to have shorter check-ins, keep notes, or get support between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to continue work when travel or schedules change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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