About Lewis
Lewis Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 25 years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical steps people can take when stress, anxiety, addiction, or grief make daily life harder. Lewis aims to help clients feel steadier and regain control over upsetting patterns.
He works with people facing relationship strain, career pressure, parenting stress, and trauma from past abuse. Lewis also addresses challenges like low self-esteem, anger, bipolar mood concerns, and ADHD-related difficulties.
Background and approach
He pays attention to how family history and adoption or foster care experiences shape current behavior. His style is straightforward and collaborative. Sessions are focused on the problems you bring and on small, doable changes between meetings.
He uses a mix of approaches that match each person’s goals rather than a single fixed method. Lewis brings practical tools for handling panic, intrusive thoughts, and compulsive behaviors tied to addiction. He helps people improve communication, set boundaries, and manage caregiving or chronic illness stress.
He also supports those working through abandonment, codependency, or forgiveness issues. People can expect an adaptive plan that combines short-term strategies with deeper emotional work when needed. Lewis aims to make change feel manageable and realistic.
He practices in the District of Columbia and offers services in English to local and international clients.
Approach-focused care delivered online
Client-Centered Therapy centers the person and their priorities. Sessions focus on listening, reflecting, and helping the client say what matters. This approach can help people gain clarity and feel more confident making choices.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. It teaches skills to reduce anxious thinking and change unhelpful habits, which can be useful for panic, worry, and mood symptoms.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people understand and shift patterns in close relationships. It works well for those wanting clearer emotional communication and stronger connections with others.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Lewis will discuss goals and preferences and suggest methods that fit the clients needs. He adapts plans over time so techniques remain useful as situations change.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is good for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Chat and messaging let people touch base between appointments and use written reflection when that helps. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- District of Columbia
- Languages
- English
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