About Jean
Jean Smith is a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist in Texas with 34 years of experience. She brings a calm, respectful presence to sessions and focuses on practical help for stress and anxiety. Jean frames therapy as a collaborative process and talks with each person to fit the work to their needs and values.
Jean often helps people who are navigating relationship strain, grief, career transitions, and major life changes.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with self-esteem struggles, addictions, trauma and abuse, and intimacy-related concerns. Her work includes attention to aging and geriatric issues, cancer-related challenges, and workplace stress. Her approach draws on straightforward, evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral techniques and mindfulness practices.
In sessions she uses simple tools and exercises that people can try between meetings. Conversations emphasize concrete steps and manageable goals rather than long lectures. Jean also brings experience addressing family of origin issues, codependency, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose.
She works with people facing transitions in young adulthood and women’s issues as well. Her focus is on helping clients make changes that fit their everyday lives. Sessions are guided by respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
Jean invites curious questions and aims to create a space where people can talk honestly about what they are facing. She meets clients where they are and helps them build clearer coping skills and next steps.
CBT and Mindfulness in Online Therapy
Jean uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people notice and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT work often includes short exercises, thought records, and doable behavioral experiments that can be practiced between sessions.She also draws on mindfulness therapy to help people build present-moment awareness and reduce reactivity. Mindfulness practices in sessions usually involve simple breathing or attention exercises that can lower stress and improve focus over time.
Choosing an approach is a shared decision. Jean will talk with each person about their goals, daily life, and what feels manageable. Together they decide whether CBT, mindfulness, or a mix of both is the best fit and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video sessions are useful for deeper conversations and practicing exercises together. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is low or when a short check-in fits the day. Live chat and text allow for brief reflections and support between longer meetings.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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