About LaShonda
Dr. LaShonda Smith helps people facing stress and anxiety, along with depression, relationship strain, parenting pressures, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She is a South Carolina psychologist with more than 21 years of experience.
She emphasizes respect and dignity for every person who comes to therapy. Her style blends practical skills with personal attention. She uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify unhelpful thoughts and patterns.
She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and client-centered ways of listening to help clients find what matters to them.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear goals and small, workable steps. Solution-focused elements help people try changes that fit their daily life. Dr.
Smith aims to make therapy feel understandable rather than confusing or overly clinical. She has worked with people dealing with chronic pain, illness, and disability, as well as mood disorders and life transitions like divorce and separation. She also supports those coping with loneliness, parenting stress, anger, and questions about life purpose and self-love.
In the first meetings she helps clients set priorities and chooses strategies together. Progress is tracked with simple, realistic tasks between sessions. Her approach is collaborative, grounded in real-world solutions, and adjusted as someone’s needs change.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood. It often involves short exercises and practice between sessions.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Smith will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. The choice of tools is collaborative and can change as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy fit into busy lives. Video is good for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and chat or text is useful for quick check-ins or brief skill practice. These options let people schedule sessions from different locations, fit therapy into a workday, or keep regular contact between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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