Kristen Smith

Kristen Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with 27 years of experience. She focuses on career concerns among many life stressors and helps people facing depression, anxiety, and relationship or intimacy difficulties. Kristen sees clients who are coping with addiction, trauma, grief, and transitions, and she pays attention to everyday struggles like sleep, eating, and self-esteem.

She starts from the belief that each person knows their story best. Sessions aim to build on a clients strengths and practical resources. Kristen offers straightforward guidance and listening so people can make changes that matter to them.

Her style mixes collaborative listening with tools that address thoughts, behaviors, and emotional regulation. That means talking through patterns, trying small experiments, and practicing new responses between sessions. She adapts interventions to what fits a client's routine and goals.

Kristen has worked across many settings over nearly three decades, supporting people with long-term and acute concerns. She draws on methods that help with mood, stress, and coping as well as skills for managing intense emotions and improving relationships.

People who value a respectful, down-to-earth approach may find her helpful. If someone wants clear steps and steady support while they work through change, Kristen aims to be a practical partner on that path.

How her approaches translate to online care

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the client's goals and experience. In practice this means the therapist follows what matters most to the client and mirrors back insights to help clarify next steps.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It helps with anxiety, depression, sleep and eating concerns, and patterns that affect career or relationships by giving concrete tools to test and change thinking and behavior.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, teaches skills for managing intense emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling relationship challenges. It is useful for people who need structure around emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.

Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose techniques that match their needs, goals, and preferences, and will adjust those methods over time based on what helps.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing appointments during breaks or between commitments. It can also make shorter check-ins possible when a full session isn't needed, or allow work to continue when a client prefers not to be on camera.