About Katina
Katina Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Louisiana who helps people handle stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, low self-esteem, depression, grief, parenting strains, and life changes. She also addresses ADHD, relationship and family concerns, and issues tied to adoption, aging, substance use, and fertility. Her work is practical and focused on everyday problems.
She draws on six years as an LPC alongside long experience in social services to guide conversations and plan next steps.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on clear tools people can use between appointments. Katina listens first, then helps clients spot unhelpful thinking and try small changes. Katina commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques to identify patterns of thinking that keep problems going.
She also uses trauma-focused work for people with past abuse or overwhelming events. Motivational interviewing helps when someone is unsure about changing habits like substance use. Her approach is client-centered and direct.
She aims to build trust quickly and to teach coping skills that fit day-to-day life. Sessions involve setting realistic goals and practicing skills during and after meetings. People come for short-term help with a single problem or longer work on deep issues.
Katina works with adults and teens across a broad range of concerns, including complex situations where multiple issues overlap. She accepts international clients and provides services in English.
Online approaches that meet you where you are
Katina commonly uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT breaks problems into small parts so clients can test new actions and see clearer results, which helps with anxiety, depression, and everyday stress.She also draws on trauma-focused therapy when past events continue to cause distress. This approach focuses on understanding how traumatic experiences affect current reactions and on developing skills for managing triggers and painful memories.
Choosing the right method is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. That collaborative process guides whether sessions lean more toward CBT, trauma work, or motivational interviewing when someone needs help changing habits.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reminders and reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around school, work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana
- Languages
- English