About LaShaunda
Dr. LaShaunda Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) in Mississippi with eight years of clinical experience. She focuses on stress and anxiety and helps people find practical ways to manage day-to-day pressure.
Dr. Smith also supports clients facing relationship and family concerns and the strain of life transitions. She uses clear, straightforward techniques in sessions so people can try small changes between meetings.
Conversations are collaborative and respectful, with attention to each person's background and strengths.
Background and approach
Dr. Smith often works on coping skills, mood management, and problem-solving strategies to reduce worry and overwhelm. Her practice addresses a wide range of concerns including trauma and grief, parenting and family dynamics, eating and self-esteem issues, and challenges tied to identity such as LGBT and multicultural concerns.
She also supports clients dealing with ADHD, bipolar symptoms, compassion fatigue, and career-related stress. Dr. Smith pays attention to family of origin patterns, abandonment and adoption issues, blended family stress, and the emotional impact of divorce and separation.
She can help people process prejudice and discrimination and build self-love and life purpose. Sessions aim to be practical and steady. She encourages clients to notice what works and to adjust strategies when needed.
Starting therapy is framed as a step toward clearer thinking and steadier days.
How her approaches translate to online care
Dr. Smith commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Internal Family Systems in her online work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and stress. It is practical and often includes small exercises to try between sessions.Internal Family Systems (IFS) helps people notice different emotional parts of themselves and how those parts interact. It can be useful for trauma, grief, self-criticism, and working through family of origin concerns by giving language to internal experiences.
She treats finding the right approach as a partnership. Together the therapist and client decide which method fits the client’s goals and preferences, and they adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face and use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging allow shorter, flexible exchanges across the week and can help keep momentum between longer sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Commitment issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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