About Dennis
Dennis Patrick Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who helps people manage stress and anxiety. He offers supportive, direct care for concerns like addiction, grief, trauma and relationship strain. His approach is practical and people-focused.
He works to meet each person where they are and build a plan that fits their life. Dennis favors clear conversations over jargon. Sessions focus on steps people can try between meetings.
Background and approach
He draws on cognitive behavioral strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts and on acceptance and commitment ideas to clarify values and action. Attachment-based work helps address how early relationships shape current patterns. Clients can expect a calm, respectful tone and a focus on what matters right now.
Dennis adapts the pace and tools to match individual needs, from short-term coping to longer personal work. He emphasizes skills that can reduce everyday distress and improve relationships. With seven years of professional experience, Dennis combines practical techniques with a focus on personal meaning and choice.
He also uses existential ideas when clients wrestle with life purpose or major changes. That mix allows him to address both symptoms and the larger questions behind them. Sessions may include problem-solving, behavior experiments, values clarification, and talk aimed at making daily life more manageable.
He aims to help people feel more capable of handling stress, change, and the challenges that follow trauma.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses practical exercises to change patterns that keep problems going. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and anger. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and reactions, which can be useful for intimacy issues and relationship difficulties.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they will choose techniques and adjust them over time so sessions match the client’s needs and pace.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful when visual cues help the work, phone can fit shorter check-ins or lower bandwidth, and chat or messaging supports brief updates or ongoing check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule sessions around work, caregiving, and busy days while keeping therapy practical and consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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