About Jerry
Jerry Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Tennessee with 23 years of clinical experience. He focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, anger, depression, and the aftereffects of trauma. He meets readers where they are and aims to make the first step feel manageable.
He believes clients know their own stories best and brings a practical, respectful stance to sessions. That means identifying what is working, spotting small changes to try, and practicing new responses between meetings.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and aimed at easing daily strain and panic symptoms. Over more than two decades he has worked with a range of concerns that include panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, social anxiety, guilt and shame, and forgiveness issues. He uses approaches grounded in evidence to help people reduce intense reactions and rebuild routines that feel safe and reliable.
In conversation he listens for patterns that keep problems going and then helps set simple goals. Progress often comes from short experiments people can try between sessions and from learning ways to calm the body when anxiety spikes. He also supports people working through grief and the emotional fallout of trauma.
Jerry offers sessions in English and accepts international clients. He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. To begin, a person completes a brief matching questionnaire and schedules according to the available times.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Jerry uses evidence-based techniques tailored to anxiety, panic, and trauma-related concerns. One common approach focuses on teaching practical breathing and grounding skills to reduce panic symptoms and lower daily anxiety. These are short exercises people can use when stress spikes to regain a calmer state of mind.Another approach centers on examining unhelpful thought patterns and testing them with doable experiments. This helps with social anxiety, guilt, shame, and persistent negative thinking by showing whether feared outcomes actually happen and by building new ways of responding.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about what’s most troubling, what goals feel meaningful, and which methods feel comfortable. Together they adjust strategies over time until the plan fits the person’s needs and pace.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow fuller conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions work well when internet speed is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people send short updates, try quick coping tools, or check-in between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit care around work, caregiving, and travel while staying focused on reducing anxiety and improving daily functioning.
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- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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