About Beth
Beth Anne Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Louisiana with eight years of experience. She focuses on practical, down-to-earth help for people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, addiction, and career questions. She uses a straightforward, respectful style and aims to make the first steps feel possible.
She draws on client-centered work to listen closely and build on what matters to each person. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is part of her approach when thoughts and habits are getting in the way.
Background and approach
She also uses mindfulness and motivational interviewing to help people notice patterns and find their own reasons to change. Beth Anne keeps sessions interactive and collaborative. She works with each client to shape the pace, focus, and goals of therapy.
That can mean skills practice one week and talking through choices the next. She has experience addressing addictions to substances as well as mood and panic symptoms. She also supports people dealing with body image, self-esteem, forgiveness, and workplace stress.
Because she is hard of hearing, she brings both personal and professional insight into disability-related concerns and supports people who are hearing impaired or visually impaired. Sessions are offered in English and provided through video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Beth Anne frames work as coaching and counseling when helpful, and she aims for clear, usable steps clients can try between sessions.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and building on a person's own strengths. In sessions she offers open, nonjudgmental space so the client steers the topics and goals. This approach helps when someone needs understanding and a clearer sense of what matters to them.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and actions interact. She uses CBT to break down unhelpful thinking patterns and to practice small behavioral changes. This method is useful for anxiety, panic, low mood, and habits related to substance use.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process helps match techniques to the client's needs and preferences.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion, phone sessions can be quieter and use less bandwidth, live chat fits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing written check-ins between visits. These options give flexibility so people can choose the format that works best for their schedule and comfort.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Anger management
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Forgiveness
- Hearing impaired
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Stress, Anxiety
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English