About Sheena
Dr. Sheena Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of clinical experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety and supports those facing trauma, relationship strain, and major life changes.
She uses practical, evidence-based techniques to help people find clearer ways of coping. Sessions are collaborative and focused on small, achievable steps. Common topics include worry, anger, career stress, and recovery from painful relationships or past abuse.
Background and approach
Her background includes work in community mental health and addiction treatment. That experience shapes a straightforward, skills-based style that emphasizes problem solving and safety. She also brings an understanding of separation, abandonment issues, and forgiveness work into the room.
Dr. Smith aims to make sessions useful from the first meeting. People can expect to talk through immediate difficulties and get concrete tools to practice between meetings.
She pays attention to mood concerns, self-image, and patterns connected to narcissistic relationships and post-traumatic stress. Therapy with her is directed toward growth and daily functioning rather than labels. She helps people build stronger coping habits, improve close relationships, and regain steady ground after disruptive events.
Sessions take place for people located in New Jersey and are conducted in English.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Dr. Smith uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical skills and trauma-informed care. Cognitive-behavioral strategies help identify unhelpful thought patterns and build new coping behaviors to reduce anxiety and manage mood. Trauma-informed methods focus on safety, pacing, and grounding exercises to address the effects of past abuse or post-traumatic stress.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to match methods to their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaborative process can include trying techniques for a few sessions and adjusting the plan based on what helps most.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people connect face to face from wherever they are in New Jersey. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging provide shorter, flexible check-ins and make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it simpler to maintain progress between sessions and practice new skills in real life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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