About Benjamin
Benjamin Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Louisiana who focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. He works with adults dealing with relationship struggles, low self-esteem, and major life changes. Sessions are described as collaborative and paced to what each person needs.
Benjamin aims to keep things straightforward. He helps clients name goals and break them into doable steps. Conversations are meant to be nonjudgmental and practical, with an emphasis on what someone wants to change next.
Background and approach
In therapy he guides people to reflect on what matters most to them. That may include communication problems, codependency, commitment worries, or issues tied to parenting and fatherhood. He also addresses concerns such as guilt, shame, emptiness, impulsivity, and the stress caregivers face.
He brings 14 years of counseling experience to sessions and uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques to support progress. Clients can expect a focus on real-life coping skills and accountability between sessions. Benjamin offers multiple ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
He works in English and does not take international clients. The process to begin involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling through the site's Start Therapy flow.
Evidence-based approaches and online care
Benjamin uses practical, evidence-based techniques that focus on clear goals and everyday skills. One approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress by teaching breathing strategies, activity planning, and problem-solving steps to reduce overwhelm. Another approach centers on improving communication and relationship patterns by practicing how to express needs and set boundaries in everyday situations.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Benjamin will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. He checks in regularly and adapts techniques based on what helps most in real life.
Online therapy gives flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let people communicate face to face when that matters. Phone sessions offer a simpler option with less bandwidth, and live chat or text-based messaging can be handy for quick check-ins or short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum while fitting therapy into daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Avoidant personality
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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