Kristen Smith

Kristen Smith is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida with 27 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people manage anger along with related issues like addiction, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. Kristen approaches each person with respect and expects clients to be the experts on their own lives.

She encourages small, practical steps that fit into everyday life. Sessions emphasize clear goals, coping skills, and ways to reduce overwhelming emotions. Kristen draws on methods that help people change unhelpful thinking and build stronger emotional regulation.

Kristen uses Client-Centered Therapy to listen closely and shape work around what the client says matters most. She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify thinking patterns that fuel anger and to practice alternative responses. Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when people need tools for distress tolerance and emotion regulation.

Her background includes long-term clinical work with people facing trauma, grief, parenting stress, ADHD, and issues around identity and intimacy. She helps people tackle problems like sleep disruption, eating concerns, career strain, and compassion fatigue. Kristen frames therapy as practical work - learning skills and trying them between sessions.

People who prefer direct, steady support may find her style helpful. She aims to make the process clear, so clients know the next steps and can measure progress over time. To begin, people follow the site’s matching and scheduling process.

How her approaches translate to online work

Kristen uses Client-Centered Therapy to hear what matters most to the person and shape the work around their priorities. This approach is about open listening and partnering with the client to set meaningful goals.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions link together. CBT is practical and helps people test new ways of thinking and behaving when they feel angry or stuck.

Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills are used when people need clear tools for handling strong emotions and stressful moments. DBT skills teach things like distress tolerance, grounding techniques, and ways to improve emotional control.

Finding the best approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with the client to choose which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. That choice can shift as progress is made and new challenges arise.

Confirm current session options before booking because formats were not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and support practice of skills between appointments. Licensed professionals can adapt these approaches to match the rhythm of everyday life and the client’s goals.