About Quinton
Quinton Smith is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) with ten years of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, and related concerns. He aims to make sessions straightforward and practical so people can use what they learn right away. Quinton begins by listening closely to each person's situation.
He looks at emotional, physical, social, and work-related factors to shape goals that fit the person's life. He expects honest collaboration so therapy targets feel clear and achievable.
Background and approach
His core stance is person-centered care. That means he offers empathy, nonjudgmental attention, and genuine engagement while supporting each person's pace. He blends that stance with concrete tools from approaches such as acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and trauma work.
In sessions he focuses on building a trusting relationship while teaching skills for coping with overwhelming feelings, managing impulses, and improving self-worth. He also helps people grapple with grief, multicultural concerns, codependency, and issues common among young adults. Quinton is based in Mississippi and conducts therapy in English.
He offers multiple session formats to fit different schedules and needs, and he encourages people to view counseling as a collaborative process that aims to leave them with skills they can use long after sessions end.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit daily life
Quinton draws on cognitive behavioral therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy to help people change unhelpful thinking and build meaningful action. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying thought and behavior patterns that keep problems going and practicing new ways of responding. Acceptance and commitment therapy emphasizes noticing difficult feelings, clarifying values, and taking small steps toward a fuller life despite hard emotions.Finding the right mix of approaches is a team effort. The therapist will work with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and comfort level. That collaboration means approaches can shift over time as progress and preferences become clearer.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video lets people use visual cues and longer conversation time, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging lets people keep a running conversation or check in between sessions. These options help therapy fit work, school, and family schedules while keeping continuity of care across life changes.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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