About Jeffrey
Jeffrey Smart brings six years of clinical experience to his counseling practice in Ohio. He holds an LPCC, which is the state credential for professional clinical counselors. Jeffrey focuses on helping people move past obstacles that limit their daily life and goals.
He helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, anger, and relationship concerns. He also supports those facing major life changes, career questions, and long-term mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.
Background and approach
Common additional focus areas include caregiving strain, communication and commitment issues, and recovery from domestic violence or substance problems. Jeffrey uses a person-centered and existential style. That means sessions start with the client's goals and values.
He treats the conversation as collaborative, not directive, and aims to reduce judgment while listening for what matters most to the person in front of him. He also uses practical methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help clients change unhelpful thoughts and build workable habits. The Gottman Method informs his work around relationship communication and conflict.
Techniques are chosen to match the client’s needs and daily life. People describing complicated emotional patterns often find his approach useful because it balances exploration of meaning with down-to-earth problem solving. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, small experiments between meetings, and steady steps toward the changes the client wants.
Practical approaches for online counseling
Jeffrey combines Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address thoughts, feelings, and behavior in everyday life. ACT helps people clarify their values and take action toward what matters, even when uncomfortable emotions arise. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression. Finding the right approach happens together. He will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then tailor techniques to the client's situation. This collaborative process aims to match methods to the person rather than force a single model. Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video calls are useful for deeper conversational work and observing nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for a mid-day check-in. Live chat and text messaging support brief check-ins, coaching-style suggestions, and ongoing accountability between longer sessions.r These options make it easier to schedule care around work, caregiving, or travel while still working on concrete goals and practical steps between meetings.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English