About Stephanie
Stephanie Smith is a licensed professional counselor in Tennessee with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and the fallout from trauma and loss. Her work is straightforward and goal-focused, aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable.
She uses plain language in sessions and helps clients name what matters most to them. Stephanie listens for patterns that keep people stuck and works with them to try small, practical changes.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on coping skills, better communication, and rebuilding self-esteem. Many clients come to her for relationship struggles, grief, parenting strain, or difficulties tied to adoption and foster care. She also supports people dealing with addiction, bipolar mood challenges, ADHD, and sleeping problems.
The emphasis is on real-life solutions that fit each person’s situation. Her approach blends evidence-based tools and mindfulness exercises to reduce overwhelm and increase emotional balance. Stephanie guides people through trauma recovery using methods suited to each individual.
Motivation and small-step planning are used to turn insight into action. People who prefer a collaborative, direct style tend to do well with her. She aims to make therapy practical and approachable so clients can return to daily life with clearer choices and steadier coping.
Sessions are offered in English and scheduled from her Tennessee practice.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Stephanie often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and managing mood by focusing on clear steps people can practice between sessions.She also draws from Emotionally-Focused Therapy when relationship patterns and communication issues are central. EFT helps people notice emotional responses and try new ways of connecting that reduce conflict and increase understanding.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, then adjust methods as progress is made. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video is useful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Grief
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English