About Kelli
Kelli Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Louisiana. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, relationship problems, depression, trauma, parenting challenges, anger, and self-esteem concerns. Her approach aims to make therapy practical and approachable for busy families.
Kelli uses straightforward, skills-based methods drawn from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking, try small behavior changes, and build daily habits that reduce anxiety and improve mood.
Background and approach
She also uses solution-focused techniques to set clear goals and take concrete steps toward them. Clients coming to her for trauma-related concerns will find trauma-focused strategies included alongside other tools. Kelli adapts her work to each person's immediate needs, whether someone needs a short plan of action or longer-term support.
She mentions experience with ADHD, impulsivity, mood disorders, and post-traumatic stress among other concerns. Her style is described as warm and supportive, with an emphasis on respect and avoiding stigmatizing labels. She aims to build a practical plan with each person and to tailor sessions to cultural and lifestyle factors that matter to them.
Kelli brings a decade of counseling experience and has worked across a range of family and individual issues. She offers a mix of brief and longer-term options and focuses on clear steps people can use between sessions.
Approach-driven care through online sessions
Many clients benefit from cognitive behavioral work because it focuses on changing thoughts and actions that keep problems going. CBT teaches practical skills for anxiety, depression, and mood-related concerns and gives short exercises to practice between sessions.Mindfulness therapy helps people notice their thoughts and bodily reactions without getting swept up by them. That approach can reduce reactivity to stress, improve focus, and make emotion management easier in daily life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to pick methods that fit their goals and preferences, and can shift course if something isn’t helping. This makes therapy more responsive to what actually helps a client day to day.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video lets people work face to face, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat is useful for brief check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing coaching between sessions. These options help fit counseling into busy schedules and different daily rhythms.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Depression
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Impulsivity
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Louisiana, Texas
- Languages
- English