About Lee
Lee Anne Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings 15 years of clinical experience to her work. She focuses on helping people who are managing anxiety, depression, trauma, bipolar disorder, ADHD, addictions, grief, relationship concerns, and identity questions. Her manner is warm and interactive, and she aims to build a respectful, compassionate space where people can be heard.
She uses practical methods that help people notice and change patterns that cause distress.
Background and approach
Lee Anne draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She pairs that with attachment-based ideas to help people understand relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current connection. EMDR is part of her toolbox for processing traumatic memories when that is appropriate.
She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills for intense feelings. Sessions are shaped to match each person's needs rather than following a rigid script. Lee Anne has practiced across regions and holds LPC credentials in Colorado and Texas.
She offers sessions in English and works with adults facing a wide range of life challenges, including chronic illness, body image concerns, codependency, and parenting stress. Her style is collaborative and goal oriented, with attention to practical coping skills. People who choose to work with her can expect a mix of conversation, skill building, and targeted interventions.
Lee Anne encourages clear communication about therapy goals and adjusts plans as progress is made.
How attachment, CBT, and trauma work online
Lee Anne integrates attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, and EMDR into online therapy. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationship patterns shape current connection and communication; it helps with intimacy, trust, and relationship difficulties. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional charge when trauma is part of the picture.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and preferences, then try methods that seem likely to help. That collaborative process means techniques can be mixed or adjusted over time to match what the client needs.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversation and skill coaching, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quicker check-in, and messaging or chat fit brief updates or between-session support. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep continuity when schedules change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Bipolar disorder
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Colorado
- Languages
- English