About Simone
Simone Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in New Jersey who supports people facing anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and major life changes. She also helps with parenting stress, career questions, addiction concerns, and wounds from trauma and abuse. Simone works in a warm, respectful way and values sensitivity and cultural awareness.
Simone draws on several practical approaches to meet each person where they are. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot and change unhelpful thinking.
Background and approach
She blends client-centered methods to make space for each person's experience and to build trust. In sessions Simone focuses on real-life skills you can try between meetings. She helps people develop coping tools for stress and strategies to manage anxiety day to day.
When relationships are a concern, she uses parts of emotionally-focused work and the Gottman method to improve connection and communication. Her experience includes counseling in a school setting and work in independent practice, totaling six years. That background informs a practical style that combines evidence-based techniques with compassion.
Simone pays attention to how culture and discrimination affect mental health and supports people coping with racial trauma. People meet her when they want straightforward help with self-esteem, postpartum depression, young adult transitions, or learning to be kinder to themselves. Sessions are personalized and focused on goals the person sets.
Simone aims to help people find clearer direction and stronger daily coping skills.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choose actions that match personal values. It can be useful when anxiety or life changes make it hard to move forward. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting patterns of thought and behavior that fuel distress and then practicing new, more helpful responses; it often helps with anxiety, stress, and depression. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship where the person leads the pace and goals of therapy.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Simone collaborates with each person to decide which methods fit best based on goals, preferences, and what shows up in sessions. She combines elements from different approaches as needed so care stays practical and individualized.
Online work uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, which makes scheduling easier and therapy more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversational work and reading nonverbal cues, while phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or to fit a break at work. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins, between-session support, or a lower-pressure way to start talking. These formats help people access consistent care around busy lives and different time zones.
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What this therapist works with
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- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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