About Selma
Selma Smith is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) based in North Carolina with 11 years of professional experience. She focuses on practical help for people facing anxiety, stress, addiction concerns, mood changes, and life transitions. Selma emphasizes respect and sensitivity in her work and aims to make the first steps less overwhelming.
She helps people sort through day-to-day struggles like low self-esteem, sleep problems, and career worries. She also supports those dealing with grief, trauma and abuse, and caregiver or compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
Conversations are tailored to each person's needs rather than following a one-size-fits-all plan. Selma draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques to build coping skills and improve emotional regulation. Sessions typically involve learning concrete tools, trying new ways to respond to stress, and setting achievable goals.
She values collaboration and encourages small, steady changes that fit into a client's life. Her additional focus areas include issues such as abandonment, adoption and foster care, communication problems, domestic violence, and substance use concerns. Selma also addresses challenges linked to parenting, fatherhood issues, aging and geriatric matters, and first responder stress.
People who choose her often want a practical approach that balances empathy with clear steps forward. She will work with each person to design a plan that fits their situation and priorities. The goal is to help people feel more capable and to reduce the day-to-day burden of their concerns.
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Evidence-based techniques focus on concrete skills and practical change. One common approach teaches coping and stress-management skills through step-by-step practice. It helps with anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and day-to-day overwhelm by offering tools to use between sessions.Another useful method centers on emotion regulation and behavioral change. This approach breaks big problems into smaller actions, supports gradual shifts in patterns, and is helpful for mood concerns, addiction-related behaviors, and compassion fatigue.
Choosing the right approach happens together. The therapist will listen to your goals and preferences, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative process helps find what works best for you.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and more interactive skill work. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or you prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging let you check in more frequently and fit brief sessions into busy days. These options give flexibility to make therapy work with your schedule and routine.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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