About Anastasia
Anastasia Smith-McEwen is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and challenges like parenting, grief, and addictions. She writes plainly and listens carefully to understand what is most urgent for each person. Her work is practical and goal-oriented, aimed at small steps that make daily life easier.
She has worked in Mississippi for 11 years across several settings. That includes home-based foster care, crisis counseling at a community mental health center, and as a therapist in an acute inpatient unit.
Background and approach
Those roles gave her experience with children, adolescents, and adults navigating a range of mental health concerns. Sessions may include individual work, group conversations, or family-focused meetings depending on the situation. Anastasia uses methods like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Mindfulness, and Motivational Interviewing to tailor a plan.
She focuses on simple skills people can use between sessions. In the room she helps people identify small, realistic goals and track progress one step at a time. She explains tools in plain language and practices them together during sessions.
The aim is to leave people with practical strategies they can try at home. Her approach is collaborative and direct. She helps clients sort priorities, reduce overwhelming thoughts, and build routines that support mood and functioning.
Anastasia serves people across a range of concerns and works from Mississippi.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person's own goals. The therapist follows the client's lead and helps reflect values and priorities back in a supportive way. This approach helps when someone needs space to sort feelings and make decisions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviors that keep problems going and teaches concrete skills to change them. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress by breaking concerns into manageable steps and practicing new responses.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Anastasia treats therapy as a collaborative process and will help figure out which methods fit a person's needs, goals, and preferences. Together they can try different techniques and adjust the plan based on what helps most.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video is good for deeper conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or for a quieter check-in. Live chat or text-based messaging can be a shorter way to touch base or track progress between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or family schedules and to continue care when travel or time is a barrier.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English