About Jerra
Jerra Smith is a licensed professional counselor in Mississippi. She brings three years of counseling experience and a straightforward style that focuses on what a person needs right now. She commonly helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and substance use concerns.
She also works with issues such as relationship strain, anger, low self-esteem, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her practice includes support for mood concerns like bipolar disorder and for managing life changes.
Background and approach
Jerra blends practical techniques from cognitive behavioral work with mindfulness practices. Sessions tend to focus on clear goals, concrete skills, and short-term strategies that a person can use between meetings. She emphasizes respect and empowerment, aiming to help people notice patterns and try small changes that add up.
Her additional focus areas include communication problems, co-morbidity, family problems, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and substance use such as drug and alcohol addiction. She also addresses social anxiety, isolation, issues around pregnancy and childbirth, and workplace stress. Jerra describes her role as a partner in the process.
She works with each person to set manageable steps and to build tools for coping, making decisions, and improving relationships. The tone in her work is practical, direct, and supportive.
Practical approaches for online therapy and coping skills
Jerra uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT focuses on real-life problems, helps reduce anxiety and depression symptoms, and teaches skills you can use between sessions.She also uses Mindfulness Therapy to help people become more aware of the present moment without judgement. Mindfulness can reduce stress, help with anger and rumination, and make it easier to cope with cravings or strong emotions.
Finding the right mix of methods is a collaborative process. The therapist and client work together to pick approaches that match needs, goals, and what feels most useful. Plans can change as progress is made and new challenges appear.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging for flexibility. Video sessions work well for in-depth conversation and teaching skills. Phone calls can fit into a work break or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, trouble-shooting, and quick skill reminders between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while using approaches like CBT and mindfulness effectively.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English