About Luciana
Luciana Smalls is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in South Carolina who blends practical skills with a warm, direct approach. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns. She also supports those coping with parenting challenges, adoption and foster care issues, addiction, ADHD, grief, and major life changes.
Her sessions are focused and person-centered. She draws from client-centered therapy to create a respectful, nonjudgmental space where each person’s goals guide the work.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) techniques are used to teach concrete skills for emotion regulation, problem solving, and behavior change. Luciana brings nine years of counseling experience and over two decades in human services to her practice.
That background gives her familiarity with a wide range of life circumstances, including blended family issues, caregiving strain, body image concerns, and intimacy-related problems. She also works with people facing career stress, compassion fatigue, and end-of-life caregiving matters. Sessions typically focus on building skills and making practical changes.
Clients co-create treatment plans that match their needs and goals. Luciana emphasizes motivation, mindfulness, and straightforward strategies so people can see progress between meetings. She conducts sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Her practice uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and she practices in South Carolina as an LPC.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and respect so the person sets the pace and goals; this approach helps when someone needs a steady, understanding space to talk through life events. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors, which is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress when people want practical skills to use between sessions. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) provides strategies for managing intense emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness, helping people who struggle with impulsivity, anger, or relationship patterns.Finding the right approach is often a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That means trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as work progresses so the approach matches real needs.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect using video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction and skills practice, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, live chat suits people who prefer typing in the moment, and text messaging supports ongoing check-ins between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work across life changes.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English