Dr. Lauren Smith

Dr. Lauren Smith is an LCSW who helps people facing stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and trauma. She supports clients dealing with relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, self-esteem struggles, and life changes. She also offers care around ADHD, LGBT concerns, and intimacy-related issues.

She brings 13 years of practical experience to sessions and aims to make therapy feel straightforward and useful. Her style leans toward listening first, then offering tools people can try between visits. She centers each conversation on the person in front of her and on what feels most helpful in daily life.

Her background includes focused work with adoption and foster care matters, attachment concerns, blended family issues, and divorce or separation. That experience informs how she talks about family patterns and relationships. She pays close attention to how past events shape present behavior.

Dr. Smith uses a mix of approaches to match each person’s needs. She draws from attachment-based ideas to look at relationships, client-centered ways to keep the work grounded in the client’s goals, and cognitive behavioral tools to address thoughts and behaviors. She also integrates mindfulness and depth-oriented perspectives when they fit.

She practices in Florida as a Tennessee and Florida LCSW and works to create a respectful, culturally aware setting. To begin, people follow the site’s Start Therapy path and complete a short matching questionnaire to schedule based on availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current connection patterns. Online work can focus on understanding those patterns and trying new ways of relating in everyday life. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person’s goals and experience, with the therapist following the client’s lead and offering support where it feels most useful. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, emphasizes practical exercises that change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and is often paired with homework between sessions.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, symptoms, and preferences and then suggest what to try first. That choice can change over time as needs evolve, and adjustments are made collaboratively rather than imposed.

Confirm the current session options before booking so you know which formats are available. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, cut travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also makes it possible to continue momentum between in-person appointments and to use mindfulness or CBT exercises right where daily life happens.