About Stephanie
Stephanie Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of experience working in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people manage anxiety, stress, and major life changes. Her style is warm and straightforward, with an emphasis on practical skills clients can use between sessions.
She often helps people untangle relationship patterns and communication problems. She also supports those coping with grief, addiction, mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and challenges linked to adoption and foster care.
Background and approach
Sleeping difficulties, anger, and low self-esteem are common issues she addresses. Her work combines structured techniques with emotion-focused conversations. Clients learn tools to challenge unhelpful thoughts, practice new ways of relating, and process difficult memories.
Sessions aim to build coping strategies that fit each person’s daily life. Stephanie uses approaches such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EMDR, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She adapts these methods to the concern at hand and to what the person finds most helpful.
Progress is tracked in clear, practical steps. She provides care by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Sessions are arranged around client needs and follow a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
People who want to begin are asked to complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
CBT, or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors. It’s useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and feeling stuck in negative cycles. Emotionally-Focused Therapy helps people notice and shift interaction and attachment patterns that affect close relationships. It’s often used when communication problems and relationship distress are present. EMDR, or Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, is a method that supports processing traumatic memories and reducing their emotional charge by combining focused memory work with guided bilateral stimulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they choose methods and adjust them over time so the treatment fits the person’s needs and daily life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people interact face to face from different locations. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth or being on camera is difficult. Live chat and text-based messaging can support short check-ins, ongoing coaching, or moments when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English
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