About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Smart is a licensed professional clinical counselor with six years of practice experience in Ohio. He focuses on common life stresses that get in the way of daily functioning, including anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, and relationship strain. Jeffrey speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel like a steady, respectful conversation.
He takes a person-centered approach that keeps the client's goals central. That means sessions prioritize what the client wants to work toward, and the counselor listens without judgment.
Background and approach
He also draws on existential ideas to help people find meaning during difficult transitions. Jeffrey uses practical, evidence-informed tools as needed, including cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thinking and acceptance-based strategies to reduce avoidance. He blends these methods to fit the situation rather than following a rigid plan.
Sessions often include skills practice and real-life steps between meetings. People who do well with his approach are those ready to talk about values, make small changes, and test out new ways of coping. He also supports people managing addiction, bipolar symptoms, caregiving stress, and complex losses.
Conversations address concrete problems like communication, commitment issues, and life changes alongside deeper questions about purpose. Jeffrey offers multiple remote session formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. He asks new clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule based on availability.
How therapy approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful patterns and choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes by teaching practical ways to move forward despite difficult thoughts. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and replacing them with more helpful choices; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and addiction. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the client sets goals and the therapist listens and reflects to help clarify what matters most.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss different methods and tailor the plan to each person's goals, preferences, and day-to-day needs. This is a collaborative process where strategies are tried and adjusted together.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video suits in-depth conversations and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows quick check-ins, and messaging supports brief updates or ongoing coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue care during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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