About Juanita
Juanita J Smith Whittington offers steady support for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, or big life changes. She keeps sessions practical and focused. Her approach helps clients notice patterns and build small, manageable skills to cope.
Juanita communicates plainly and aims to make therapy feel understandable and reachable. She brings 20 years of practice as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor - LPCC. Juanita often uses cognitive-behavioral ideas to connect thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Background and approach
She also draws on mindfulness techniques to help people slow down and notice their experience without judgment. Sessions look at patterns that keep problems going and then try different ways to change them. Common concerns she addresses include anxiety, stress, depression, relationship strain, self-esteem, and coping with life transitions.
She also supports people facing attachment and abandonment worries, caregiver stress, communication problems, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, and questions about life purpose and self-love. Money and women’s issues are included in her focus areas. Juanita practices from California and speaks English.
She accepts international clients and works through a range of session formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Fees vary with location and a subscription model is used that can be canceled at any time. Getting started involves selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to therapist availability.
The early sessions prioritize problem identification and practical steps clients can use between meetings.
Approach to therapy online and practical tools
Juanita commonly draws on cognitive-behavioral techniques that look at how thoughts, emotions, and behaviors connect. This approach focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and practicing new ways of responding to reduce anxiety and depressive moods. She also uses mindfulness-based practices to help clients increase awareness of their moment-to-moment experience and build tolerance for difficult feelings.Choosing an approach happens together. Juanita works collaboratively to match methods to a person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Early sessions typically explore what feels most pressing and then try approaches in short cycles to see what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions let people use face-to-face interaction from different locations. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, homework review, or ongoing support between synchronous sessions. These options provide flexibility for busy schedules and different comfort levels.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
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