About Roslyn
Roslyn Smith is a licensed professional counselor with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and the effects of trauma and abuse. She supports people struggling with addictions, anger, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, sleep problems, and career or parenting stress. Her approach is straightforward and focused on practical steps that fit everyday life.
Roslyn favors a collaborative style. She listens closely and helps people set clear, doable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often include skills for managing strong emotions, strategies to change unhelpful thinking, and planning for real-world situations people face. She uses straightforward language and avoids jargon. Her background combines long-term clinical work with a focus on common life challenges like coping with change, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
Roslyn also works with concerns such as abandonment, attachment issues, neurodiversity, chronic health challenges, and codependency. That range helps her tailor sessions to each person's situation. Roslyn draws from several evidence-based approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive-behavioral techniques, and parts of dialectical behavior therapy.
She blends these methods to teach skills, build resilience, and support decision-making. Expect a mix of reflection and practical homework between sessions. Roslyn practices in Mississippi and conducts sessions in English.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How chosen approaches work in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then take actions that match personal values. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like worry and insomnia. It is practical for anxiety, depression, and sleep problems. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most useful, then try methods together. That collaborative process helps shape sessions so they match how a person learns and changes over time. Online formats offer real flexibility. Video calls approximate an in-person conversation and work well for skill teaching and longer check-ins. Phone sessions are a simpler option when less bandwidth or camera time is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging let people check in between sessions or use shorter, focused communication for quick coping strategies. These options can make it easier to fit therapy into busy days and to keep momentum between appointments.Questions people ask
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English