About Ileah-Mare
Ileah-Mare Smith-Allen uses a client-centered approach to guide people through relationship struggles, family tensions, and major life changes. She draws on 21 years of counseling experience and listens for strengths you already have. Sessions focus on practical steps you can try between meetings.
Ileah-Mare is a Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, practicing in Michigan and working in English. She helps people facing anxiety, depression, bipolar mood challenges, grief, and trauma-related concerns.
Background and approach
She also supports those dealing with issues around intimacy, communication problems, commitment, and abandonment. Practical topics like sleep, eating, parenting stress, and career direction are part of her work too. Her style blends client-centered conversation with cognitive behavioral strategies to spot thinking patterns that get in the way.
Mindfulness techniques are used to build calm and present-moment awareness. When motivation is low, she draws on motivational interviewing to help set realistic goals and keep progress steady. Ileah-Mare pays attention to family of origin issues, blended family dynamics, and the pressures caregivers face.
She helps people untangle guilt, shame, and the fallout from infidelity or divorce. Sessions aim to break problems into manageable steps and to sharpen communication skills. People meet her for short-term coaching or longer therapeutic work depending on goals.
She accepts international clients and offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. The practical focus is on clear next steps and steady, achievable change.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building on your strengths. In online sessions she creates space for open conversation, helps clarify goals, and follows your lead about what matters most. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact. Used online, CBT involves identifying unhelpful thinking patterns, trying small experiments, and tracking results between sessions to reduce anxiety or low mood.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. She will work with you to decide whether client-centered conversation, CBT, or mindfulness practices best match your needs and preferences. Together you'll set goals, try methods, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let you use visual cues and hold fuller conversations. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can be simpler to fit into a busy day. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when you want to reflect in writing. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and travel schedules.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Michigan, Arizona
- Languages
- English