Kelli Smith, LPC

Kelli Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), a designation that indicates training and licensure to provide clinical counseling. She practices from Louisiana and also maintains licensure in Texas, and she brings a decade of clinical experience to work with individuals and families. Over the course of her career she has supported more than 500 families and has provided direct counseling to children, adolescents, and adults across a wide range of concerns.

Kelli is trained in trauma-focused approaches and is pursuing certification in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, combining that specialization with evidence-based methods such as cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, and solution-focused counseling. Her work addresses common issues including stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family difficulties, parenting challenges, ADHD, anger, low self-esteem, and life transitions, along with additional focus areas like attachment and communication problems and post-traumatic stress.

Her counseling style is warm, supportive, and collaborative. She aims to meet clients where they are, tailor interventions to individual needs, and set concrete goals together. Kelli offers both brief and longer-term treatment options and integrates practical skills with reflective work to help clients move through current problems. She is also an author of multiple books on topics such as anxiety, organization, communication, and boundaries.

Practical therapeutic approaches for online counseling

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a structured, skills-focused approach that helps clients identify unhelpful thinking patterns and develop practical strategies to change behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and difficulties with mood and self-esteem.

Mindfulness Therapy teaches techniques to bring nonjudgmental attention to the present moment, helping people respond more calmly to stress and manage emotional ups and downs. It can support work on anxiety, rumination, and coping with life changes.

Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on understanding and reducing the impact of traumatic experiences through targeted interventions and coping skills. It is suited for clients experiencing post-traumatic stress, complex trauma reactions, and related symptoms.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kelli will work with each person to explore goals, preferences, and needs, and will blend or adjust methods as treatment progresses to find the best fit.

Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen - by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - which can make it easier to fit counseling into a busy life and access support from different locations. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver the same core therapeutic tools as in-person work while adapting pace and structure to each client.