About Marie
Dr. Marie Smith is a licensed counselor offering practical support for people facing stress and anxiety. She draws on 25 years of experience to help clients sort through difficult feelings and find manageable steps forward.
She is licensed as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Her work focuses on everyday challenges such as anxiety, depression, grief, addiction concerns, and relationship strain. She also assists with career transitions and coaching around life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions look at what is happening now and what patterns from the past keep showing up in daily life. Dr. Smith blends client-centered work with structured skills training.
That means she listens first, then helps people try tools that fit their situation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy techniques are used to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses mindfulness practices and dialectical behavior skills to manage intense emotions and stress.
Her background includes counseling in schools, hospitals, clinics, and correctional settings. That range informs a practical approach to problem solving and coping. She draws on experience with trauma and adversity to support building resilience after hard experiences.
People who come for help leave with concrete steps they can try at home. Sessions may include goal-setting, skill practice, and short-term coaching focused on real-life problems. The aim is clearer thinking and better daily coping.
How her approaches fit into online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's goals. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects their concerns, and helps them decide what to work on next. This is useful for people who want a supportive, nonjudgmental space to sort out life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches clear tools for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Sessions may include identifying thinking patterns, trying small behavioral experiments, and practicing new ways of coping with anxiety or low mood. This approach is helpful for stress, anxiety, and problems that respond to step-by-step change.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust as needed. That collaborative process helps identify whether skills practice, trauma-focused work, or a more reflective client-centered path fits best.
Online therapy offers flexibility for people with busy lives. Video calls let the therapist observe nonverbal cues while keeping sessions face-to-face. Phone sessions can work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for short updates, coaching between sessions, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family problems
- Grief
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Florida
- Languages
- English
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