About Yiasha
Yiasha Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She draws on six years of clinical work to offer steady support during difficult life changes. Sessions are practical and focused on what a person needs now.
Yiasha aims to create a space where clients feel heard and understood. She has worked with young adults adjusting to new stages of life and with people managing long-term mental health conditions.
Background and approach
Yiasha spends time identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and replacing them with skills that improve daily functioning. She keeps sessions direct and goal-oriented while staying warm and encouraging. Her approach blends client-centered care with structured techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy.
She also uses motivational interviewing and solution-focused strategies when they fit a client's goals. This mix lets her tailor sessions to each person's situation and strengths. In therapy, Yiasha emphasizes small, realistic changes that build confidence.
She helps people explore relationship issues, grief, parenting concerns, and questions about identity and intimacy. She also works with concerns such as addictions, anger, body image, and coping with career transitions. Clients can expect practical homework, skill practice, and steady feedback between meetings.
Yiasha balances encouragement with honest conversation to track progress. Her work aims to reduce symptoms and improve day-to-day coping in ways that feel doable.
Using practical approaches in online therapy
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and responding to each person's concerns. The therapist follows the client's lead, reflects what is said, and helps people identify what matters most so they can set useful goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect. It teaches specific tools to challenge negative thinking and to try new behaviors that improve daily life. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for regulating strong emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating distress when situations feel overwhelming.Finding the right mix of approaches is a joint effort. The therapist will talk with the client about their goals and preferences, try methods that suit the situation, and adjust the plan based on what helps. This collaborative process makes it easier to focus on what works for each person.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer therapy work and skill practice. Phone sessions can fit a break at work or when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins, short reflections, and flexible communication between meetings. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into a busy life while keeping the work practical and focused.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English