About Ileah-Mare
Ileah-Mare Smith-Allen is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Michigan with 21 years of experience. She centers sessions on the person in front of her and helps people address stress, anxiety, and relationship struggles. Her style is straightforward and respectful, focusing on what clients want to change.
Ileah-Mare listens for strengths and builds on them. She helps clients tackle self-esteem problems, coping with life changes, and parenting concerns. Sessions also address grief, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related issues.
Background and approach
She uses practical methods to help people manage mood and behavior. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps break unhelpful thinking patterns and offers skills people can use between sessions. Client-Centered Therapy creates space for people to speak freely and guide the pace of work.
Mindfulness techniques are woven in to help with stress, sleep, and staying present through difficult feelings. Motivational Interviewing supports people who want to make changes but feel stuck. Solution-Focused Therapy highlights what’s already working and builds short-term plans.
Ileah-Mare also addresses concerns such as anger, career stress, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and eating or sleeping problems. She helps with family-of-origin issues, blended family challenges, and communication or commitment problems. Her approach is collaborative and practical.
She helps people set small goals and tracks progress over time. Those ready to start are guided step by step through matching and scheduling.
How her approaches work online
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and following the client’s lead so sessions revolve around what matters most to the person. This approach helps with relationship concerns, low self-esteem, and building confidence by honoring individual goals and pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is useful for anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and mood management because clients learn skills they can practice between sessions.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they try methods, adjust as needed, and set small, measurable steps toward change.
Online therapy offers several practical advantages. Video calls let you see visual cues and do longer sessions, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and text-based messaging or live chat allow for brief check-ins or ongoing support between appointments. These options make it easier to fit sessions into workdays, travel schedules, or caregiving routines while keeping therapy consistent.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Arizona
- Languages
- English
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